A couple of days before I installed the kernel 3.5.0-40 through the regular Ubuntu Update process and all went fine. I did check the /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.5.0-40-generic.postrm file and it still sported the 4 occurences of pwd in this instruction :
chomp($cwd = `pwd`); When first installing the Quantal kernel backport there was no problem and subsequent updates went fine. However the automatic update process did install a 3.5.0 kernel recent version (far above the 40 currently supported). I did not pay attention to the GRUB boot screen which was still showing that the 3.5.0-39 was used by my Ubuntu 12.04 system and I removed as usual the older(s) kernels from my /boot partition. Following this I had to boot through th regular 3.2 kernel and I did re-install the kernel 3.5.0-39 through the following precedure coming from an official Ubuntu website : 1) Add the X-team ppa (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/q-lts-backport) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/q-lts-backport 2) Update apt and install the new kernel sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic-lts-quantal linux-headers-generic-lts-quantal 3) Restart your computer to boot into the new kernel However I was faced with the reported bug : package linux-image-3.5.0-39-generic 3.5.0-39.60~precise1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 17 Only after replacing all occurences of pwd by getcwd() within /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.2.0-34-generic.postinst , did I succeed to re-install the Quantal backport of 3.5.0-39 in Precise 12.04 For information before re-installing I did the following to remove the Quantal kernel : 1) Install ppa-purge sudo apt-get install ppa-purge 2) Remove the ppa sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/q-lts-backport 3) PPA Purge will find the packages installed and offered to downgrade them. Say yes and ppa-purge will remove the upgraded versions and reinstall the versions from the archive. 4) Remove the meta packages sudo apt-get remove --purge linux-image-generic-lts-quantal linux-headers-generic-lts-quantal 5) Remove the kernel itself. While running the new kernel, enter the following command uname -r This returns a number, like '3.5.0-8-generic'. Use the number (3.5.0-8) to replace the word KERNEL sudo apt-get remove --purge linux-image-KERNEL-generic linux-headers-KERNEL linux-headers-KERNEL-generic sudo apt-get autoremove Eg, for '3.5.0-8' sudo apt-get remove --purge linux-image-3.5.0-8-generic linux-headers-3.5.0-8 linux-headers-3.5.0-8 In short the used : chomp($cwd = `pwd`); is working as it did before, however I am not sure weather the problem would re-appear following a full un-install / re-install. the solution was to use : chomp($cwd=`getcwd()`); -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1221138 Title: package linux-image-3.5.0-39-generic 3.5.0-39.60~precise1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 17 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1221138/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
