Question #57712 on update-manager in ubuntu changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+question/57712
Tim posted a new comment: Sorry to revive an old thread, but I have been reading through it trying to solve a problem. Ok, so I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 (which in the few days I've been running it as a replacement for Fedora Core 11 seems wonderful): t...@scally:~$ uname -a Linux scally 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 19:49:51 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux An installation (using apt-get) failed earlier. All my attempts to unlock/unblock dpkg have failed in the following circular fashion: t...@scally:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a && sudo apt-get -f install Setting up initramfs-tools (0.92bubuntu29) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-13-generic cpio: ./bin/udevinfo: Function stat failed: No such file or directory update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-13-generic dpkg: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 t...@scally:~$ t...@scally:~$ sudo apt-get install foo E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. t...@scally:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a Setting up initramfs-tools (0.92bubuntu29) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-13-generic cpio: ./bin/udevinfo: Function stat failed: No such file or directory update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-13-generic dpkg: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Soooo, I had a quick check that I had enough diskspace on /boot and I'm fairly sure I have: t...@scally:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 116G 3.8G 107G 4% / tmpfs 1007M 0 1007M 0% /lib/init/rw varrun 1007M 128K 1007M 1% /var/run varlock 1007M 0 1007M 0% /var/lock udev 1007M 172K 1007M 1% /dev tmpfs 1007M 84K 1007M 1% /dev/shm lrm 1007M 2.2M 1005M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-13-generic/volatile /dev/sda1 149G 80G 70G 54% /cdrive t...@scally:~$ df /boot Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 121254660 3919236 111176032 4% / So I checked that the /boot/initrd...-13-generic file exists, which it does. t...@scally:~$ ls /boot/init* /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-13-generic t...@scally:~$ ls -l /boot/init* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7549683 2009-07-12 16:21 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7559890 2009-07-12 16:45 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-13-generic But it would be the "./bin/udevinfo" that C3P0 is choking on. t...@scally:~$ locate udevinfo t...@scally:~$ Any ideas? You received this question notification because you are a member of UF Unanswered Posts Team, which is an answer contact for Ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

