From: Mizanur Khondoker on
I am having the following error while upgrading lenny. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.

debian:/home/mizanur# aptitude safe-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (2.6.26-24) ...
Running depmod.
Running mkinitramfs-kpkg.
Failed to symbolic-link boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 to initrd.img.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 17
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (2.6.26-24) ...
Running depmod.
Running mkinitramfs-kpkg.
Failed to symbolic-link boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 to initrd.img.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 17
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686


Regards,
Mizanur Khondoker


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From: Stephen Powell on
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:23:17 -0400 (EDT), Mizanur Khondoker wrote:
>
> I am having the following error while upgrading lenny. Any help would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> debian:/home/mizanur# aptitude safe-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> The following partially installed packages will be configured:
> linux-image-2.6.26-2-686
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (2.6.26-24) ...
> Running depmod.
> Running mkinitramfs-kpkg.
> Failed to symbolic-link boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 to initrd.img.
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 17
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> linux-image-2.6.26-2-686
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
> Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (2.6.26-24) ...
> Running depmod.
> Running mkinitramfs-kpkg.
> Failed to symbolic-link boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 to initrd.img.
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 17
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> linux-image-2.6.26-2-686

Mizanur,

Please provide the following information:

(1) Which boot loader are you using? (Grub version 1? Grub version 2?
lilo? extlinux?)

(2) What is the contents of /etc/kernel-img.conf?

(3) What are the names of the files in the following directories?

/etc/kernel/preinst.d
/etc/kernel/prerm.d
/etc/kernel/postinst.d
/etc/kernel/postrm.d

(4) What is the output of the following commands?

ls -Al /boot/
ls -Al /

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From: Andrei Popescu on
On Sb, 26 iun 10, 20:22:20, Stephen Powell wrote:
>
> Please provide the following information:
>
> (1) Which boot loader are you using? (Grub version 1? Grub version 2?
> lilo? extlinux?)
>
> (2) What is the contents of /etc/kernel-img.conf?
>
> (3) What are the names of the files in the following directories?
>
> /etc/kernel/preinst.d
> /etc/kernel/prerm.d
> /etc/kernel/postinst.d
> /etc/kernel/postrm.d
>
> (4) What is the output of the following commands?
>
> ls -Al /boot/
> ls -Al /

and

df -h

please.

Regards,
Andrei
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