I'm an Ubuntu novice, so any help here is greatly appreciated. I'm running 12.04, and I have six updates that just won't install. I've tried Update Manager, sudo apt-get upgrade, and sudo apt-get update. Nothing has worked so far.
Here's my output after sudo apt-get dist-upgrade:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
fglrx fglrx-amdcccle fglrx-dev linux-generic-pae
linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic-pae linux-image-generic-pae
6 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
11 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/83.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 53.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic-pae (3.2.0-24.37) ...
Running depmod.
sh: 1: /usr/sbin/update-initramfs: not found
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic-pae (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Setting up linux-image-3.2.0-27-generic-pae (3.2.0-27.43) ...
Running depmod.
sh: 1: /usr/sbin/update-initramfs: not found
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-3.2.0-27-generic-pae (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Setting up linux-image-3.2.0-29-generic-pae (3.2.0-29.46) ...
Running depmod.
sh: 1: /usr/sbin/update-initramfs: not found
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-3.2.0-29-generic-pae (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Setting up udev (175-0ubuntu9.1) ...
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
udev stop/waiting
udev start/running, process 4840
/var/lib/dpkg/info/udev.postinst: 87: /var/lib/dpkg/info/udev.postinst: update- initramfs: not found
dpkg: error processing udev (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xserver-xorg-core:
xserver-xorg-core depends on udev (>= 149); however:
Package udev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg-core (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of fglrx:
fglrx depends on xserver-xorg-core; however:
Package xserver-xorg-core is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing fglrx (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of fglrx-amdcccle:
fglrx-amdcccle depends on fglrx; however:
Package fglrx is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing fglrx-amdcccle (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-generic-pae:
linux-image-generic-pae depends on linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic-pae; however:
Package linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic-pae is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-generic-pae (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-generic-pae:
linux-generic-pae depends on linux-image-generic-pae (= 3.2.0.24.26); however:
Package linux-image-generic-pae is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-generic-pae (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xserver-xorg-video-intel:
xserver-xorg-video-intel depends on xorg-video-abi-11; however:
Package xorg-video-abi-11 is not installed.
Package xserver-xorg-core which provides xorg-video-abi-11 is not configured yet.
xserver-xorg-video-intel depends on xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.10.99.901); however:
Package xserver-xorg-core is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg-video-intel (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of fglrx-dev:
fglrx-dev depends on fglrx; however:
Package fglrx is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing fglrx-dev (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic-pae
linux-image-3.2.0-27-generic-pae
linux-image-3.2.0-29-generic-pae
udev
xserver-xorg-core
fglrx
fglrx-amdcccle
linux-image-generic-pae
linux-generic-pae
xserver-xorg-video-intel
fglrx-dev
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Best Answer
All the errors says it could not find a file, that is
/usr/sbin/update-initramfsNow I executed the following command to find out which package was expected to provide that file and here is the output
So would you please try installing package initramfs-tools and re-run the updates. To check if the package already present.
Then to install initramfs-tools (if not found)
Then repeat the install process using
sudo apt-get updateor other commands.I am keen to know if this helped you to tide over the problem.