<  > I am getting this message after upgrading via synaptic.
<  > 
<  > E: linux-image-2.6.29-1-multimedia-686: subprocess post-installation script
<  returned error exit status 128
<  > 
<  > Is it serious? How to fix it?
<  > 
<  Don't know, there is more information that is hidden that I need to see
<  to better understand the problem.  There is a button to show the details
<  of the upgrade.  It might be easier just to run the upgrade from the
<  command line and then copy/paste the errors into an email.
<  
<  Run the following command from a terminal (konsole, xterm, eterm, gterm
<  whatever you have installed).
<  
<  sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
<  

Hi Gustin,

Here is output:

$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done             
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  linux-image-2.6.29-1-multimedia-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.
Writing extended state information... Done
Setting up linux-image-2.6.29-1-multimedia-686 (2.6.29-2) ...
Running depmod.
Running update-initramfs.
Running update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29-1-multimedia-686
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
User postinst hook script [update-grub] exited with value 20
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.29-1-multimedia-686 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 128
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.29-1-multimedia-686
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up linux-image-2.6.29-1-multimedia-686 (2.6.29-2) ...
Running depmod.
Running update-initramfs.
Running update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29-1-multimedia-686
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
User postinst hook script [update-grub] exited with value 20
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.29-1-multimedia-686 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.29-1-multimedia-686
Reading package lists... Done             
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done  

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