From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: CACook@quantum-sci.com Subject: Re: Cannot Deinstall a Debian Package Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 05:57:59 -0700 Message-ID: <201105060558.00314.CACook@quantum-sci.com> References: <201105031227.43619.CACook@quantum-sci.com> <201105060509.31652.CACook@quantum-sci.com> <20110506122028.GA3735@attic.humilis.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: "linux-btrfs" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110506122028.GA3735@attic.humilis.net> List-ID: On Friday 6 May, 2011 05:20:28 Sander wrote: > Can you post the error? # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Setting up linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64 (2.6.38-3) ... Running depmod. Running update-initramfs. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-2-amd64 initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-2-amd64 ) points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-2-amd64 (/boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-2-amd64) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64.postinst line 348, line 7. vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-2-amd64 ) points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-2-amd64 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-2-amd64) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64.postinst line 348, line 7. Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d. run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms 2.6.38-2-amd64 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-2-amd64 dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 2.6.38-2-amd64: vboxhost (3.2.12)...failed. run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 2.6.38-2-amd64 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-2-amd64 run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/pm-utils 2.6.38-2-amd64 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-2-amd64 run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/update-notifier 2.6.38-2-amd64 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-2-amd64 run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 2.6.38-2-amd64 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-2-amd64 /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'. run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub exited with return code 1 Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64.postinst line 801, line 7. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 9 configured to not write apport reports Setting up grub-pc (1.99~rc1-13) ... grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'. Installation finished. No error reported. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'. dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 configured to not write apport reports dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6-amd64: linux-image-2.6-amd64 depends on linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64; however: Package linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-amd64 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured configured to not write apport reports Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64 grub-pc linux-image-2.6-amd64 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)