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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.

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  • what was the output of uname -r? Feb 20, 2014 at 2:56
  • The output of uname -r 3.11.0-15-generic
    – TealTiger
    Feb 20, 2014 at 4:16
  • did you able to install any package via apt-get? Feb 20, 2014 at 4:19
  • And also provide the output of apt-cache policy linux-image-generic. Feb 20, 2014 at 4:26
  • I am not able to install anything using apt-get... I get this error every time also the output of the apt-cache policy linux-image-generic linux-image-generic: Installed: 3.11.0.15.16 Candidate: 3.11.0.17.18 Version table: 3.11.0.17.18 0 500 us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu saucy-updates/main i386 Packages 500 security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu saucy-security/main i386 Packages *** 3.11.0.15.16 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.11.0.12.13 0 500 us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu saucy/main i386 Packages
    – TealTiger
    Feb 20, 2014 at 5:50

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