I have tried searching and found many articles, posts, and discussions around this error but I have yet to find anything that tells me how to fix it.
I have run the following:
$ sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up linux-image-extra-3.11.0-15-generic (3.11.0-15.25) ... Running depmod. update-initramfs: deferring update (hook will be called later) Failed to symbolic-link /boot/initrd.img-3.11.0-15-generic to initrd.img:File exists at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-extra-3.11.0-15-generic.postinst line 614. dpkg: error processing linux-image-extra-3.11.0-15-generic (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 17 Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-extra-3.11.0-15-generic E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
$ sudo dpkg --configure -a Setting up linux-image-extra-3.11.0-15-generic (3.11.0-15.25) ... Running depmod. update-initramfs: deferring update (hook will be called later) Failed to symbolic-link /boot/initrd.img-3.11.0-15-generic to initrd.img:File exists at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-extra-3.11.0-15-generic.postinst line 614. dpkg: error processing linux-image-extra-3.11.0-15-generic (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 17 Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-extra-3.11.0-15-generic
$ sudo apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up linux-image-extra-3.11.0-15-generic (3.11.0-15.25) ... Running depmod. update-initramfs: deferring update (hook will be called later) Failed to symbolic-link /boot/initrd.img-3.11.0-15-generic to initrd.img:File exists at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-extra-3.11.0-15-generic.postinst line 614. dpkg: error processing linux-image-extra-3.11.0-15-generic (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 17 Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-extra-3.11.0-15-generic E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I'm at a loss and do not know where to go from here.
Any help you could provide will be greatly appreciated.
uname -r
?apt-get
?apt-cache policy linux-image-generic
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