Comment 72 for bug 22070

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Yözen Hernández (yhernand) wrote :

Whoops, looks like something might be wrong with that kernel image

This happens when you try to install it:
(Reading database ... 326215 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-image-2.6.32-26-generic (from linux-image-2.6.32-26-generic_2.6.32-26.45_amd64.deb) ...
Done.
dpkg-deb (subprocess): short read in buffer_copy (failed to write to pipe in copy)
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.32-26-generic_2.6.32-26.45_amd64.deb (--install):
 short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./lib/modules/2.6.32-26-generic/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko')
Running postrm hook script /usr/sbin/update-grub.
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-25-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-25-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-24-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1
Found Microsoft Windows XP Professional on /dev/sdb1
done
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.32-26-generic_2.6.32-26.45_amd64.deb

In case there's something wrong with the download, here's the md5sum I got:
dc75edc2c10c1dfb804ce67572f997cf Downloads/linux-image-2.6.32-26-generic_2.6.32-26.45_amd64.deb