Problems w/ Kernels on Hardy

[chris]

I'm having a bit of an odd issue. I logged on today and saw that there
was an updated kernel. 2.6.24-18.

I went to install it and it error out. After digging turns out my
/boot was full.

So I went to Synaptic and told it to purge -16 kernel. After that, -18
installed fine. After I got -18 running and vmware wkst recompiled. I
went back to Synaptic and told it to purge -17.

Now I'm getting this.


E: linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-16-generic: subprocess post-removal
script returned error exit status 1
E: linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-17-generic: subprocess post-removal
script returned error exit status 1
E: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16-generic: subprocess post-removal
script returned error exit status 1
E: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-17-generic: subprocess post-removal
script returned error exit status 1


(Reading database ... 113971 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-16-generic ...
FATAL: Could not open '/boot/System.map-2.6.24-16-generic': No such
file or directory
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
Cannot find /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
dpkg: error processing linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-16-generic (--remove):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Removing linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-17-generic ...
FATAL: Could not open '/boot/System.map-2.6.24-17-generic': No such
file or directory
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic
Cannot find /lib/modules/2.6.24-17-generic
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic
dpkg: error processing linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-17-generic (--remove):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Removing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16-generic ...
FATAL: Could not open '/boot/System.map-2.6.24-16-generic': No such
file or directory
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
Cannot find /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
dpkg: error processing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16-generic (--remove):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Removing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-17-generic ...
FATAL: Could not open '/boot/System.map-2.6.24-17-generic': No such
file or directory
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic
Cannot find /lib/modules/2.6.24-17-generic
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic
dpkg: error processing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-17-generic (--remove):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-16-generic
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-17-generic
 linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16-generic
 linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-17-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:




Apparently this is breaking my laptop on being able to install new
software.  I just tried to install the google-desktop-linux from
Google's repo and it downloads the files... and then attempts to
remove the above stuff and fails and won't install.

So I'm stuck at this point and not really wanting to reinstall my laptop.

Can someone please advise/

thanks