Hi, I am also experiencing this error.
My fan was on full blast with no programs running and while I got it to quiet down by re-calibrating my CPU fan via the BIOS tools, but now I am experiencing this error when attempting to load software/use programs. Terminal logs in <> < $ sudo apt-get install hydrogen Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done hydrogen is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Setting up i8kutils (1.41) ... * Starting Dell fan/cpu-temperature monitor i8kmon [fail] invoke-rc.d: initscript i8kmon, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing package i8kutils (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: i8kutils E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) $ cat /proc/i8k cat: /proc/i8k: No such file or directory $ sudo modprobe i8k modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'i8k': No such device $ sudo updatedb && locate i8k.ko /lib/modules/3.13.0-36-generic/kernel/drivers/char/i8k.ko /lib/modules/3.13.0-37-generic/kernel/drivers/char/i8k.ko /lib/modules/3.13.0-39-generic/kernel/drivers/char/i8k.ko /lib/modules/3.13.0-40-generic/kernel/drivers/char/i8k.ko /lib/modules/3.13.0-43-generic/kernel/drivers/char/i8k.ko /lib/modules/3.13.0-46-generic/kernel/drivers/char/i8k.ko /lib/modules/3.13.0-48-generic/kernel/drivers/char/i8k.ko /lib/modules/3.13.0-49-generic/kernel/drivers/char/i8k.ko /lib/modules/3.13.0-51-generic/kernel/drivers/char/i8k.ko /lib/modules/3.13.0-52-generic/kernel/drivers/char/i8k.ko /lib/modules/3.13.0-53-generic/kernel/drivers/char/i8k.ko /lib/modules/3.13.0-54-generic/kernel/drivers/char/i8k.ko /lib/modules/3.13.0-55-generic/kernel/drivers/char/i8k.ko > The file exists. I mean I'm not using a Dell laptop, what can I do here? Thanks, Matt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1391541 Title: package i8kutils 1.41 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/i8kutils/+bug/1391541/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
