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[Antonio19 <1221138@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A couple of days before I installed the kernel 3.5.0-40 through the
regular Ubuntu Update process and all went fine. I did check the
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.5.0-40-generic.postrm file and it still
sported the 4 occurences of pwd in this instruction :

chomp($cwd = `pwd`);

When first installing the Quantal kernel backport there was no problem
and subsequent updates went fine. However the automatic update process
did install a 3.5.0 kernel recent version (far above the 40 currently
supported). I did not pay attention to the GRUB boot screen which was
still showing that the 3.5.0-39 was used by my Ubuntu 12.04 system and I
removed as usual the older(s) kernels from my /boot partition. Following
this I had to boot through th regular 3.2 kernel and I did re-install
the kernel 3.5.0-39 through the following precedure coming from an
official Ubuntu website :

1) Add the X-team ppa (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/q-lts-backport)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/q-lts-backport
2) Update apt and install the new kernel
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic-lts-quantal linux-headers-generic-lts-quantal
3) Restart your computer to boot into the new kernel

However I was faced with the reported bug :
package linux-image-3.5.0-39-generic 3.5.0-39.60~precise1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 17

Only after replacing all occurences of pwd by getcwd() within
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.2.0-34-generic.postinst , did I succeed
to re-install the Quantal backport of 3.5.0-39 in Precise 12.04

For information before re-installing I did the following to remove the
Quantal kernel :

1) Install ppa-purge
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
2) Remove the ppa
sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/q-lts-backport
3) PPA Purge will find the packages installed and offered to downgrade them.
Say yes and ppa-purge will remove the upgraded versions and reinstall the versions from the archive.
4) Remove the meta packages
sudo apt-get remove --purge linux-image-generic-lts-quantal linux-headers-generic-lts-quantal
5) Remove the kernel itself. While running the new kernel, enter the following command
uname -r
This returns a number, like '3.5.0-8-generic'. Use the number (3.5.0-8) to replace the word KERNEL
sudo apt-get remove --purge linux-image-KERNEL-generic linux-headers-KERNEL linux-headers-KERNEL-generic 
sudo apt-get autoremove
Eg, for '3.5.0-8'
sudo apt-get remove --purge linux-image-3.5.0-8-generic linux-headers-3.5.0-8 linux-headers-3.5.0-8

In short the used :

chomp($cwd = `pwd`);

is working as it did before, however I am not sure weather the problem
would re-appear following a full un-install / re-install.

the solution was to use :

chomp($cwd=`getcwd()`);

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Title:
  package linux-image-3.5.0-39-generic 3.5.0-39.60~precise1 failed to
  install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script
  returned error exit status 17

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  unable to install properly linux kernel 3.5.0-39
  heeeeeee I get errors when updddddding Graphviz

  
  installArchives() failed: (Reading database ... 
  (Reading database ... 5%%
  (Reading database ... 10%%
  (Reading database ... 15%%
  (Reading database ... 20%%
  (Reading database ... 25%%
  (Reading database ... 30%%
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  (Reading database ... 45%%
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  (Reading database ... 80%%
  (Reading database ... 85%%
  (Reading database ... 90%%
  (Reading database ... 95%%
  (Reading database ... 100%%
  (Reading database ... 1327697 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to replace boot-sav 3.199~ppa24~precise (using .../boot-sav_3.199~ppa25~precise_all.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement boot-sav ...
  Preparing to replace boot-repair 3.199~ppa24~precise (using .../boot-repair_3.199~ppa25~precise_all.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement boot-repair ...
  Preparing to replace boot-sav-extra 3.199~ppa24~precise (using .../boot-sav-extra_3.199~ppa25~precise_all.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement boot-sav-extra ...
  Preparing to replace libgraphviz-dev 2.33.20130903.0446-1~precise (using .../libgraphviz-dev_2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement libgraphviz-dev ...
  Preparing to replace libgraphviz4 2.33.20130903.0446-1~precise (using .../libgraphviz4_2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement libgraphviz4 ...
  Preparing to replace graphviz 2.33.20130903.0446-1~precise (using .../graphviz_2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement graphviz ...
  Preparing to replace graphviz-dev 2.33.20130903.0446-1~precise (using .../graphviz-dev_2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise_all.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement graphviz-dev ...
  Preparing to replace libgv-guile 2.33.20130903.0446-1~precise (using .../libgv-guile_2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement libgv-guile ...
  Preparing to replace libgv-lua 2.33.20130903.0446-1~precise (using .../libgv-lua_2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement libgv-lua ...
  Preparing to replace libgv-ocaml 2.33.20130903.0446-1~precise (using .../libgv-ocaml_2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement libgv-ocaml ...
  Preparing to replace libgv-perl 2.33.20130903.0446-1~precise (using .../libgv-perl_2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement libgv-perl ...
  Preparing to replace libgv-php5 2.33.20130903.0446-1~precise (using .../libgv-php5_2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement libgv-php5 ...
  Preparing to replace libgv-python 2.33.20130903.0446-1~precise (using .../libgv-python_2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement libgv-python ...
  Preparing to replace libgv-ruby 2.33.20130903.0446-1~precise (using .../libgv-ruby_2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement libgv-ruby ...
  Preparing to replace libgv-tcl 2.33.20130903.0446-1~precise (using .../libgv-tcl_2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement libgv-tcl ...
  Preparing to replace os-uninstaller 3.199~ppa24~precise (using .../os-uninstaller_3.199~ppa25~precise_all.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement os-uninstaller ...
  Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
  Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
  Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
  Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
  Processing triggers for man-db ...
  Processing triggers for menu ...
  Setting up linux-image-3.5.0-39-generic (3.5.0-39.60~precise1) ...
  Running depmod.
  update-initramfs: deferring update (hook will be called later)
  Failed to symbolic-link /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-39-generic to initrd.img:File exists at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.5.0-39-generic.postinst line 614.
  dpkg: error processing linux-image-3.5.0-39-generic (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 17
  dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-generic-lts-quantal:
   linux-image-generic-lts-quantal depends on linux-image-3.5.0-39-generic; however:
    Package linux-image-3.5.0-39-generic is not configured yet.
  dpkg: error processing linux-image-generic-lts-quantal (--configure):
   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
  Setting up boot-sav (3.199~ppa25~precise) ...
  No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
  Setting up boot-repair (3.199~ppa25~precise) ...
  Setting up boot-sav-extra (3.199~ppa25~precise) ...
  Setting up libgraphviz4 (2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise) ...
  Setting up libgraphviz-dev (2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise) ...
  Setting up graphviz (2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise) ...
  Setting up graphviz-dev (2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise) ...
  Setting up libgv-guile (2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise) ...
  Setting up libgv-lua (2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise) ...
  Setting up libgv-ocaml (2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise) ...
  Setting up libgv-perl (2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise) ...
  Setting up libgv-php5 (2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise) ...
  Setting up libgv-python (2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise) ...
  Setting up libgv-ruby (2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise) ...
  Setting up libgv-tcl (2.33.20130905.0447-1~precise) ...
  Setting up os-uninstaller (3.199~ppa25~precise) ...
  Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
  ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
  Processing triggers for menu ...
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   linux-image-3.5.0-39-generic
   linux-image-generic-lts-quantal
  Setting up linux-image-3.5.0-39-generic (3.5.0-39.60~precise1) ...
  Running depmod.
  update-initramfs: deferring update (hook will be called later)
  Failed to symbolic-link /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-39-generic to initrd.img:File exists at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.5.0-39-generic.postinst line 614.
  dpkg: error processing linux-image-3.5.0-39-generic (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 17
  dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-generic-lts-quantal:
   linux-image-generic-lts-quantal depends on linux-image-3.5.0-39-generic; however:
    Package linux-image-3.5.0-39-generic is not configured yet.
  dpkg: error processing linux-image-generic-lts-quantal (--configure):
   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
  Errors were encountered while processing:

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: linux-image-3.5.0-39-generic 3.5.0-39.60~precise1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-52.78-generic 3.2.48
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-52-generic x86_64
  AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.4
  Architecture: amd64
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC1:  jean       4168 F.... pulseaudio
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  jean       4168 F.... pulseaudio
  Card0.Amixer.info:
   Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfe7f8000 irq 47'
     Mixer name	: 'Analog Devices AD1989B'
     Components	: 'HDA:11d4989b,10438311,00100300'
     Controls      : 49
     Simple ctrls  : 27
  Card1.Amixer.info:
   Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfe8fc000 irq 48'
     Mixer name	: 'ATI R6xx HDMI'
     Components	: 'HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100000'
     Controls      : 6
     Simple ctrls  : 1
  Card1.Amixer.values:
   Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
     Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
     Playback channels: Mono
     Mono: Playback [on]
  Date: Thu Sep  5 06:10:47 2013
  DuplicateSignature: package:linux-image-3.5.0-39-generic:3.5.0-39.60~precise1:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 17
  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 17
  HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=56f1614b-e623-409d-964c-196da18217cc
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
  MachineType: System manufacturer P5Q3 DELUXE
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.2.0-52-generic root=UUID=b6659b8e-576f-4ae3-aca2-d714dc39b2d9 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
  RelatedPackageVersions: grub-pc N/A
  RfKill:
   0: phy0: Wireless LAN
   	Soft blocked: no
   	Hard blocked: no
  SourcePackage: linux
  StagingDrivers: zram
  Title: package linux-image-3.5.0-39-generic 3.5.0-39.60~precise1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 17
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 05/26/2009
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 2105
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: P5Q3 DELUXE
  dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
  dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
  dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr2105:bd05/26/2009:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnP5Q3DELUXE:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnP5Q3DELUXE:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
  dmi.product.name: P5Q3 DELUXE
  dmi.product.version: System Version
  dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

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