BTW running dpkg-reconfigure -a fixed the problem for me. (It also asked me lots of questions, and I'm not sure what I misconfigured.)
Here's the end of the update messages [with my comments in square brackets]: -- snip -- Cleaning up font configuration of pango... Cleaning up category xfont.. Cleaning up font configuration of pango... Cleaning up category xfont.. Updating font configuration of pango... Cleaning up category xfont.. Updating category xfont.. udev active, devices will be created in /dev/.static/dev/ Cleaning up font configuration of libwmf0.2-7... Cleaning up category type1.. Cleaning up category truetype.. Updating font configuration of libwmf0.2-7... Cleaning up category type1.. Cleaning up category truetype.. Updating category truetype.. Updating category type1.. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-26-server W: udev hook script requires at least kernel version 2.6.17 W: not generating requested initramfs for kernel 2.6.15-26-server Not touching initrd symlinks since we are being reinstalled (2.6.15-26.47) Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated (2.6.15-26.47) 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 Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-server Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-52-server Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-51-server Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-29-server Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-28-server Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-26-server Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done [4 repeats from line "update-initramfs: Generating..." above] Running depmod. [another repeat] update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-server Generating locales... [EMAIL PROTECTED] up-to-date de_DE.ISO-8859-1... up-to-date de_DE.UTF-8... up-to-date en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date Generation complete. Generating locales... [EMAIL PROTECTED] up-to-date de_DE.ISO-8859-1... up-to-date de_DE.UTF-8... up-to-date en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date Generation complete. Backing up any LVM2 metadata that may exist...done. [back to "too old kernel" mode] update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-29-server W: udev hook script requires at least kernel version 2.6.17 W: not generating requested initramfs for kernel 2.6.15-29-server udev active, devices will be created in /dev/.static/dev/ udev active, devices will be created in /dev/.static/dev/ * Stopping MD monitoring service mdadm --monitor [ OK ] Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-29-server W: udev hook script requires at least kernel version 2.6.17 W: not generating requested initramfs for kernel 2.6.15-29-server * Starting MD monitoring service mdadm --monitor [ OK ] [back to "it works" mode] 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 Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-server Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-52-server Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-51-server Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-29-server Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-28-server Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-26-server Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done * Stopping MySQL database server mysqld [ OK ] * Stopping MySQL database server mysqld [ OK ] ls: cannot access /sys/module/apparmor: No such file or directory ls: cannot access /sys/module/apparmor: No such file or directory ls: cannot access /sys/module/apparmor: No such file or directory $Loading AppArmor module: Failed. invoke-rc.d: initscript apparmor, action "force-reload" failed. * Starting MySQL database server mysqld [ OK ] * Checking for corrupt, not cleanly closed and upgrade needing tables. Stopping nagios: nagios. * Reloading web server config apache2 [ OK ] There is no htpasswd command, so I can't create the password file for you. If you want to use nagios with apache You will have to figure out a way to create a htpasswd file yourself. If you've chosen to configure apache (or some other web server) manually, you can safely disregard this. Otherwise, the htpasswd file should be called: /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users and be mode 0640, owned by root, group www-data. chown root:www-data /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users || true chmod 0640 /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users || true Starting nagios: nagios. [and "no udev" mode again :-( ] update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-29-server W: udev hook script requires at least kernel version 2.6.17 W: not generating requested initramfs for kernel 2.6.15-29-server * Restarting OpenBSD Secure Shell server sshd [ OK ] * Starting virtual private network daemon. /etc/init.d/openvpn: 181: STATUS: not found invoke-rc.d: initscript openvpn, action "start" failed. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot# -- update-manager fails - requires at least kernel version 2.6.17 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231075 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs