[clue-tech] apt cleanup after jaunty upgrade

[Jed S. Baer]

Hi Folks.

I'm guessing my jaunty upgrade left me with a corrupted apt database.
When I run apt operations, I get errors complaining about:

Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-17-generic
 linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-18-generic
 linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic

I think it's trying to autoclean them, but ...

jbaer at robinson:~/tmp$ ls -1 /lib/modules
2.6.24-21-generic
2.6.24-22-generic
2.6.24-23-generic
2.6.24-24-generic
2.6.28-15-generic

... they aren't there.

Okay, long paste here, sorry.

$ sudo apt-get purge linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-17-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required: libglib1.2ldbl libdb4.6++ libavutil1d libk3b3 libgtk1.2
libpostproc1d libamrnb3 k3b-data libk3b3-extracodecs libamrwb3
libswscale1d libgtk1.2-common imlib-base gdk-imlib11 libpoppler-qt2 Use
'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be
REMOVED: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-17-generic
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-18-generic
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3
to remove and 4 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. After
this operation, 46.3MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue
[Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 165948 files and directories currently
installed.) 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 Removing
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-18-generic ... FATAL: Could not open
'/boot/System.map-2.6.24-18-generic': No such file or directory
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-18-generic Cannot
find /lib/modules/2.6.24-18-generic update-initramfs: failed
for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-18-generic dpkg: error processing
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-18-generic (--remove): subprocess
post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Removing
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic ... FATAL: Could not open
'/boot/System.map-2.6.24-19-generic': No such file or directory
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic Cannot
find /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic update-initramfs: failed
for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic dpkg: error processing
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic (--remove): subprocess
post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered
while processing: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-17-generic
 linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-18-generic
 linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
jbaer at robinson:~$

So, it can't complete its script, because the files/directories aren't
there.

I pretty much have a full plate right now working on recovering from
KDE4, so help with the above appreciated.

jed