i can confirm the bug. the solution two posts above doesn't work for me either.
Richte linux-image-2.6.24-mactelmacbook ein (2.6.24-mactelmacbook-10.00.Custom) ... Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-mactelmacbook ) points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-mactelmacbook (/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-mactelmacbook) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.24-mactelmacbook.postinst line 583. vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-mactelmacbook ) points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-mactelmacbook (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-mactelmacbook) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.24-mactelmacbook.postinst line 583. Running postinst hook script update-grub. Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-mactelmacbook Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-7-generic Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-5-generic Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-mactel Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.9-mactel Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-mactel Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-12-generic Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable User postinst hook script [update-grub] exited with value 1 dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von linux-image-2.6.24-mactelmacbook (--configure): Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück Richte gnome-accessibility-themes ein (2.21.91-0ubuntu1) ... gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully. Richte gnome-themes ein (2.21.91-0ubuntu1) ... gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully. gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully. Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von: linux-image-2.6.24-mactelmacbook E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- otherwise, the kernel installs and works fine, i have it running for approximately 5 days now. -- dpkg fails with debconf locked https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189005 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs