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[Richard Barmann]

On Thursday 09 June 2005 03:15 pm, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Thursday 09 June 2005 20:58, Richard Barmann wrote:
> > When installing from Synaptic I get an error window that reads
> > "E: linux-image-2.6.10-5-386:  subprocess post-installation script
> > returned error exit status 2"
> > Is this a Kubuntu problem or a Linux problem. Does anyone have any
> > input for me as to the cause or correction?
>
> Try
>
> sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.10-5-386
>
> That should show a more precise error message, if you can't fix it, post
> the error here. It a problem with the kernel package you're trying to
> install. Actually an "Ubuntu problem", no general Linux problem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> sebas
The following is the result ofentering the above
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root at adsl-065-005-184-154:/home/richard # sudo apt-get install 
linux-image-2.6.10-5-386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
linux-image-2.6.10-5-386 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.10-5-386 (2.6.10-34.2) ...
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: Cannot determine root device
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.10-5-386 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.10-5-386
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root at adsl-065-005-184-154:/home/richard #


Thank You