Recent kernel update (8.10) error

[Nigel Ridley]

Yesterday I did the usual 'sudo apt-get update' followed by 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' and ended 
up with an error. I tried again today and still get the same error (sorry for the long entry):

nigel at boys:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
   gwenview
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic (2.6.27-11.27) ...
Running depmod.
Failed to run depmod
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-11-generic:
  linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-11-generic depends on linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic; however:
   Package linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-11-generic (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-generic:
  linux-image-generic depends on linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic; however:
   Package linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-generic (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-restricted-modules-generic:
  linux-restricted-modules-generic depends on linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-11-genNo apport 
report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                            No apport report written because the 
error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                    No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
 
  eric; however:
   Package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-11-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-generic (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
  linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic
  linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-11-generic
  linux-image-generic
  linux-restricted-modules-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
nigel at boys:~$

This is using the ubuntu.com intrepid-backports repos and the ppa.launchpad.net repo

Blessings,

Nigel