Today I upgraded from dapper to edgy with update-manager.  I got this
error:

    Could not install linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic

    subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 128

(and, following that, linux-image-generic and linux-image-686 could not
be installed due to dependency problems)

/var/log/dist-upgrade/term.log has this:

[...]
Setting up libgpgme11-dev (1.1.2-2) ...
Setting up linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic (2.6.17-10.24) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic
Running postinst hook /sbin/update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ...
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-686
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ...
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... dpkg: error processing 
linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 128
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-generic:
 linux-image-generic depends on linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic; however:
  Package linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-generic (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-686:
 linux-image-686 depends on linux-image-generic; however:
  Package linux-image-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-686 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up mutt (1.5.12-1ubuntu1) ...
[...]

At the very end of the process I get this:

[...]
Setting up openoffice.org-l10n-en-us (2.0.4~rc2-1ubuntu6) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic
 linux-image-generic
 linux-image-686
edgy: Fatal IO error 9 (Bad file descriptor) on X server :0.0.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic (2.6.17-10.24) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic
initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic) points to 
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic (/boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic) -- 
doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic.postinst line 
583.
vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic) points to 
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic) -- doing 
nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic.postinst line 583.
Running postinst hook /sbin/update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-686
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ...
Setting up linux-image-generic (2.6.17.9) ...
Setting up linux-image-686 (2.6.17.9) ...

Everything looks fine, but update-manager shows another error dialog
saying

  installArchives() failed

-- 
Could not Install generic kernel
https://launchpad.net/bugs/62923

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