Hi, A couple of quick comments.
First, as a temporary workaround,as root user I simply backed up and then removed the nvidia-common file in the /etc/kernel/postinst.d and /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d directories. Then, by running "apt-get -f install", I was able to get the kernel packages to finally finish installing correctly. Then, I copied the nvidia-common file back into the two directories mentioned, and everything with apt now works again (i.e., apt-get update, apt-get autoremove, etc). In other words, running the following might temporarily help others with this problem: sudo cp -pi /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common /tmp/nvidia-common sudo rm -f /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common sudo rm -f /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/nvidia-common sudo apt-get -f install sudo cp -pi /tmp/nvidia-common /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common sudo cp -pi /tmp/nvidia-common /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/nvidia-common Second, here's what I've discovered technically that might help the experts figure out the correct solution. Non-experts may not wish to read any further. I added a "set -x" command to the 2nd line of /etc/kernel/postinst.d /nvidia-common. This revealed the error return code 10 and error message line "RET='10 nvidia-common/obsolete-driver doesn'\''t exist'". This lead me to notice at least one problem: (1) /usr/share/nvidia-common/obsolete-driver in fact does NOT exist Apparently, it has been renamed to simply /usr/share/nvidia- common/obsolete. At this point, I tried to diagnose further, and the problem clearly follows from the db_set commands within the /etc/kernel/[header_]postinst.d/nvidia-common files. However, being still somewhat new to Ubuntu/Debian (I come from RHEL world), I'm not familiar with debconf and could not readily find documentation what what db_set is suppposed to do (and looking at /usr/share/debconf/confmodule didn't help, as db_set simply calls _db_cmd "SET", which I couldn't quickly figure out what that does). At any rate, I tried the following, all of which do not work: (2) globally replacing "obsolete-driver" with "obsolete" does NOT work (3) globally replacing "obsolete-driver" with "/usr/share/nvidia-common/obsolete" does NOT work. I tried (3) because, after putting an "echo PWD=`pwd`" line at the start of nvidia-common script, I noticed it was being running from PWD=/, so I thought the problem might be a directory location, but still no joy. At this point, I just gave up and tried removing the nvidia-common files from /etc/kernel, and, as I mentioned first, that worked for me. For what it's worth, below is the relevant output from "apt-get -f install" from attempt (2) above, that is, "obsolete-driver" replaced with "obsolete" (the error message was the same in all cases, i.e., "RET='10 nvidia-common/obsolete doesn'\''t exist'"). Hope this helps folks get this resolved. It seems to be affecting a lot of people and a similar bug has high priority / triaged status. I'll crossref next. Cheers, Doug run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ++ '[' '!' '' ']' ++ PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 ++ export PERL_DL_NONLAZY ++ '[' '' ']' ++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common 2.6.31-20-generic /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ++ '[' '!' 1 ']' ++ '[' -z '' ']' ++ exec ++ '[' '' ']' ++ exec ++ DEBCONF_REDIR=1 ++ export DEBCONF_REDIR + db_set nvidia-common/obsolete false + _db_cmd 'SET nvidia-common/obsolete' false + IFS=' ' + printf '%s\n' 'SET nvidia-common/obsolete false' + IFS=' ' + read -r _db_internal_line + RET='10 nvidia-common/obsolete doesn'\''t exist' + case ${_db_internal_line%%[ ]*} in + return 10 run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common exited with return code 10 -- package linux-image-2.6.31-20-generic 2.6.31-20.57 failed to install/upgrade: run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common exited with return code 10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/533970 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs