[Bug 1899018] Re: Error reported during upgrade from 18.04.5 to 20.04.1

[Richard Slator]

I am very much a novice to Linux so please keep any explanations or
requests as simple as possible

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Title:
  Error reported during upgrade from 18.04.5 to 20.04.1

Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  During upgrade prompted to raise bug report as result of error
  Installed 'linux-image-4.15.0-117-generic' package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1.
  Upgrade completed but with warning
  Tried Synaptic Package Manager to remove package but raised same error
  Tried from command line to remove package but same error

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: dpkg 1.19.7ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-48.52-generic 5.4.60
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-48-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.9
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Oct  8 12:30:14 2020
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-08 (1003 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: dpkg
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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