update-modules command is deprecated

[Carl Karsten]

Binary package hint: update-manager-core

Installed gutsy-server

$ do-release-upgrade -d

(lots of installing... messages)

* The update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used!

(more installing... messages)

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

update-manager itself doesn't seem to call update-modules.

It would be useful to have some of the messages that you stripped
from the report, especially the package that was being installed when
you got the message in question.

Thanks,

James

[Carl Karsten (carlfk)]

Unpacking replacement libflac8 ...
Preparing to replace libldap2 2.1.30-13.4 (using .../libldap2_2.1.30.dfsg-13.5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libldap2 ...
Replaced by files in installed package libldap-2.4-2 ...
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Preparing to replace linux-image-generic 2.6.22.14.21 (using .../linux-image-generic_2.6.24.11.11_i386.deb) ...
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Preparing to replace linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.22.4-14.10 (using .../linux-restricted-modules-common_2.6.24.10-11.29_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement linux-restricted-modules-common ...
Preparing to replace nvidia-kernel-common 20051028+1ubuntu7 (using .../nvidia-kernel-common_20051028+1ubuntu8_all.deb) ...

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* The update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used!
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Unpacking replacement nvidia-kernel-common ...

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* The update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used!
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Selecting previously deselected package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-11-generic.
Unpacking linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-11-generic (from .../linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-11-generic_2.6.24.10-11.29_i386.deb) ...
Preparing to replace linux-restricted-modules-generic 2.6.22.14.21 (using .../linux-restricted-modules-generic_2.6.24.11.11_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement linux-restricted-modules-generic ...
Preparing to replace linux-generic 2.6.22.14.21 (using .../linux-generic_2.6.24.11.11_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement linux-generic ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us_2.3.1-1_all.deb

Could not install the upgrades
The upgrade aborts now. Your system could be in an unusable state. A recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a).

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport.
E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Setting up sudo (1.6.9p10-1ubuntu3) ...

Setting up libxml2 (2.6.31.dfsg-1ubuntu1) ...

Setting up gpgv (1.4.6-2ubuntu5) ...
Setting up libdbus-1-3 (1.1.20-1ubuntu1) ...

Setting up gettext-base (0.17-2ubuntu1) ...

Setting up module-init-tools (3.3-pre11-4ubuntu5) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/modprobe.d/arch/i386 ...
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[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

Thanks for the extra information.

James