So Endeth the Excellent Adventure

[GuiGuy]

A recent update (two weeks ago) on my MythBuntu box (backend) causes this error:

After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic (2.6.24-19.36) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled
(2.6.24-19.34 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled
(2.6.24-19.34 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Running postinst hook script /sbin/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-2.6.24-19-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-18-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-12-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

You already have a NoLOADER configuration in /etc/grub.conf
Running boot loader as requested
Running /usr/sbin/grub ...
Boot loader failed to run
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Essentially, linux-image is not being updated. Now other packages are failing to install because I cannot resolve the original problem.

I have exhausted google and various help forums. No one seems to know what's going on. Looks like a rebuild or restore - all the suggestions offered so far seem little more than "clutching at straws".

I see these things as the Linux weakness - frustratingly obscure errors to which there seem to be no answers. This is probably the third or fourth such error that I've had over the years that seemed to have no solution other than a re-install.

Cheers

[Lester_Burnham]

Hi Fredz,

Not being a command line guru, my idea would be to try and load the previous kernel and do your fixing from there.

It might be as simple as, editing your /boot/grub/menu.lst and commenting out the 2.6.24-19 kernel, so it boots from the previous one.

or

Hit escape at the grub menu and try load the previous kernel from there.
Once in, then try removing or fixing the 19 kernel in synaptic or at the command line.

Good luck,
Lester

[GlenR]

Have you considered Vista Media Centre?

[vlad]

Originally Posted by GlenR

Have you considered Vista Media Centre?

It is not adventurous enough

[arkay]

Fredz,

Tell me you weren't using auto update on a working rig?

This is why I don't use ubuntu. It's too much like windows.

Can you post up your /boot/grub/menu.lst file. All is not lost. Just need to do some repairs.

Cheers,

Arkay.

[GuiGuy]

Originally Posted by Lester_Burnham

Not being a command line guru, my idea would be to try and load the previous kernel and do your fixing from there.

No joy on that one, Lester. That's the one of the first things we tried.


Regards

[GuiGuy]

Originally Posted by GlenR

Have you considered Vista Media Centre?

I sense you were lurking, just waiting for something like this, right?

[GuiGuy]

Originally Posted by arkay

Tell me you weren't using auto update on a working rig?

This is why I don't use ubuntu. It's too much like windows.

Can you post up your /boot/grub/menu.lst file. All is not lost. Just need to do some repairs.

No., I invoked the update. I wanted the latest kernel 'coz I'm inclined that way

Seriously though, are you saying that I should be delving into menu.lst instead of grub.conf?

I hadn't tried that, so I will this evening. I'll post menu.lst if I get stuck.

Thanks

[GlenR]

Originally Posted by GuiGuy

I sense you were lurking, just waiting for something like this, right?

Originally Posted by GuiGuy

Seriously though, are you saying that I should be delving into menu.lst instead of grub.conf?

Personally, I always check the menu before delving into the grub.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Lester_Burnham]

Hi Fredz,

So, what actually happens when booting normally? Does it boot?
If so, are you trying to get it to finish the update correctly?

Sorry, I don't understand where the problem fits in, other than the update not installing properly.

Lester