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Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 3.13.0-39-generic cannot be found.

Asked by Josh

please help, i cant install or update packages, not sure what i did wrong, or am doing incorrectly.

$ sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-image-generic is already the newest version.
linux-image-generic set to manually installed.
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 nvidia-opencl-icd-331-updates : Depends: ocl-icd-libopencl1 but it is not going to be installed or
                                          nvidia-libopencl1-331-updates but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  linux-image-3.13.0-39-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  linux-image-3.13.0-40-generic ocl-icd-libopencl1
Suggested packages:
  fdutils linux-doc-3.13.0 linux-source-3.13.0 linux-tools
  linux-headers-3.13.0-40-generic
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-39-generic
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-image-3.13.0-40-generic ocl-icd-libopencl1
0 to upgrade, 2 to newly install, 1 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/51.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 110 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 220368 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-image-extra-3.13.0-39-generic (3.13.0-39.66) ...
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal 3.13.0-39-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-39-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms 3.13.0-39-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-39-generic
Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 3.13.0-39-generic cannot be found.
Please install the linux-headers-3.13.0-39-generic package,
or use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located
Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 3.13.0-39-generic cannot be found.
Please install the linux-headers-3.13.0-39-generic package,
or use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.13.0-39-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-39-generic
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-39-generic
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/console_setup: 45: /etc/default/console-setup: SCREEN_HEIGHT480: not found
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/console_setup failed with return 127.
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-39-generic with 127.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 127
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-extra-3.13.0-39-generic (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-extra-3.13.0-39-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a

Thanks

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Josh (j-slater) said : 		#2

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

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Josh (j-slater) said : 		#3

$ uname -a
3.13.0-43-generic #72-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 8 19:35:06 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#4

What is the output of the terminal commands

dpkg -l | grep linux-k
dpkg -l | grep linux-i

Maybe the command

sudo apt-get install linux-generic

cares for installation of the missing kernel header package

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Josh (j-slater) said : 		#5

titan@titan-desktop:~$ dpkg -l | grep linux-k
titan@titan-desktop:~$ dpkg -l | grep linux-i
rc linux-image-3.11.0-26-generic 3.11.0-26.45 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.11.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
iF linux-image-3.13.0-39-generic 3.13.0-39.66 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
rc linux-image-3.13.0-40-generic 3.13.0-40.69 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.13.0-43-generic 3.13.0-43.72 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.9.0-3-generic 3.9.0-3.8 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.9.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
rc linux-image-extra-3.11.0-26-generic 3.11.0-26.45 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.11.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
rH linux-image-extra-3.13.0-39-generic 3.13.0-39.66 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
rH linux-image-extra-3.13.0-40-generic 3.13.0-40.69 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.13.0-43-generic 3.13.0-43.72 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.9.0-3-generic 3.9.0-3.8 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.9.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-generic 3.13.0.43.50 amd64 Generic Linux kernel image

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Josh (j-slater) said : 		#6

$ sudo apt-get install linux-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-generic : Depends: linux-image-generic (= 3.13.0.44.51) but 3.13.0.43.50 is to be installed
                 Depends: linux-headers-generic (= 3.13.0.44.51) but 3.13.0.43.50 is to be installed
 nvidia-opencl-icd-331-updates : Depends: ocl-icd-libopencl1 but it is not going to be installed or
                                          nvidia-libopencl1-331-updates but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  linux-image-3.13.0-40-generic ocl-icd-libopencl1
Suggested packages:
  fdutils linux-doc-3.13.0 linux-source-3.13.0 linux-tools
  linux-headers-3.13.0-40-generic
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-39-generic
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-image-3.13.0-40-generic ocl-icd-libopencl1
0 to upgrade, 2 to newly install, 1 to remove and 39 not to upgrade.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/51.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 110 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 220368 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-image-extra-3.13.0-39-generic (3.13.0-39.66) ...
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal 3.13.0-39-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-39-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms 3.13.0-39-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-39-generic
Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 3.13.0-39-generic cannot be found.
Please install the linux-headers-3.13.0-39-generic package,
or use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located
Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 3.13.0-39-generic cannot be found.
Please install the linux-headers-3.13.0-39-generic package,
or use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.13.0-39-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-39-generic
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-39-generic
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/console_setup: 45: /etc/default/console-setup: SCREEN_HEIGHT480: not found
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/console_setup failed with return 127.
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-39-generic with 127.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 127
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-extra-3.13.0-39-generic (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-extra-3.13.0-39-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Josh (j-slater) said : 		#7

i've looked everywhere i can think of, but i'm completely lost. i try to install the dependencies directly but it wont let me

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#8

You seem to have some problem in your package management system, with a number of packages only half installed.

What is the output of the terminal commands

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo dpkg --audit

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Josh (j-slater) said : 		#9

$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up linux-image-3.13.0-39-generic (3.13.0-39.66) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: deferring update (hook will be called later)
Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled
(3.13.0-39.66 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled
(3.13.0-39.66 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal 3.13.0-39-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-39-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms 3.13.0-39-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-39-generic
Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 3.13.0-39-generic cannot be found.
Please install the linux-headers-3.13.0-39-generic package,
or use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located
Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 3.13.0-39-generic cannot be found.
Please install the linux-headers-3.13.0-39-generic package,
or use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.13.0-39-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-39-generic
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-39-generic
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/console_setup: 45: /etc/default/console-setup: SCREEN_HEIGHT480: not found
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/console_setup failed with return 127.
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-39-generic with 127.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 127
Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.13.0-39-generic.postinst line 1025.
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-3.13.0-39-generic (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-3.13.0-39-generic

$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  linux-image-3.13.0-40-generic ocl-icd-libopencl1
Suggested packages:
  fdutils linux-doc-3.13.0 linux-source-3.13.0 linux-tools
  linux-headers-3.13.0-40-generic
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-39-generic
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-image-3.13.0-40-generic ocl-icd-libopencl1
0 to upgrade, 2 to newly install, 1 to remove and 39 not to upgrade.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/51.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 110 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 220368 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-image-extra-3.13.0-39-generic (3.13.0-39.66) ...
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal 3.13.0-39-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-39-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms 3.13.0-39-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-39-generic
Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 3.13.0-39-generic cannot be found.
Please install the linux-headers-3.13.0-39-generic package,
or use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located
Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 3.13.0-39-generic cannot be found.
Please install the linux-headers-3.13.0-39-generic package,
or use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.13.0-39-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-39-generic
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-39-generic
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/console_setup: 45: /etc/default/console-setup: SCREEN_HEIGHT480: not found
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/console_setup failed with return 127.
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-39-generic with 127.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 127
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-extra-3.13.0-39-generic (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-extra-3.13.0-39-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-image-extra-3.13.0-40-generic : Depends: linux-image-3.13.0-40-generic but it is not installed
 nvidia-opencl-icd-331-updates : Depends: ocl-icd-libopencl1 but it is not installed or
                                          nvidia-libopencl1-331-updates but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-image-extra-3.13.0-40-generic : Depends: linux-image-3.13.0-40-generic but it is not installed
 nvidia-opencl-icd-331-updates : Depends: ocl-icd-libopencl1 but it is not installed or
                                          nvidia-libopencl1-331-updates but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
titan@titan-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --audit
The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems
configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using
dpkg --configure <package> or the configure menu option in dselect:
 linux-image-3.13.0-39-generic Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit

The following packages are only half installed, due to problems during
installation. The installation can probably be completed by retrying it;
the packages can be removed using dselect or dpkg --remove:
 linux-image-extra-3.13.0-40-generic Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.1
 linux-image-extra-3.13.0-39-generic Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.1

any ideas?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#10

What is the output of

sudo apt-get update
cat -n /etc/default/console-setup

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Josh (j-slater) said : 		#11

$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for titan:
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Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-proposed Release.gpg
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$ cat -n /etc/default/console-setup
     1 # Change to "yes" and setupcon will explain what is being doing
     2 VERBOSE_OUTPUT="no"
     3
     4 # Setup these consoles. Most people do not need to change this.
     5 ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-3]"
     6
     7 # Put here your encoding. Valid charmaps are: UTF-8 ARMSCII-8 CP1251
     8 # CP1255 CP1256 GEORGIAN-ACADEMY GEORGIAN-PS IBM1133 ISIRI-3342
     9 # ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-2 ISO-8859-3 ISO-8859-4 ISO-8859-5 ISO-8859-6
    10 # ISO-8859-7 ISO-8859-8 ISO-8859-9 ISO-8859-10 ISO-8859-11 ISO-8859-13
    11 # ISO-8859-14 ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-16 KOI8-R KOI8-U TIS-620 VISCII
    12 CHARMAP="UTF-8"
    13
    14 # The codeset determines which symbols are supported by the font.
    15 # Valid codesets are: Arabic Armenian CyrAsia CyrKoi CyrSlav Ethiopian
    16 # Georgian Greek Hebrew Lao Lat15 Lat2 Lat38 Lat7 Thai Uni1 Uni2 Uni3
    17 # Vietnamese. Read README.fonts for explanation.
    18 CODESET="Uni2"
    19
    20 # Valid font faces are: VGA (sizes 8, 14 and 16), Terminus (sizes
    21 # 12x6, 14, 16, 20x10, 24x12, 28x14 and 32x16), TerminusBold (sizes
    22 # 14, 16, 20x10, 24x12, 28x14 and 32x16), TerminusBoldVGA (sizes 14
    23 # and 16) and Fixed (sizes 13, 14, 15, 16 and 18). Only when
    24 # CODESET=Ethiopian: Goha (sizes 12, 14 and 16) and
    25 # GohaClassic (sizes 12, 14 and 16).
    26 # Set FONTFACE and FONTSIZE to empty strings if you want setupcon to
    27 # set up the keyboard but to leave the console font unchanged.
    28 FONTFACE="Fixed"
    29 FONTSIZE="16"
    30
    31 # You can also directly specify nonstandard font or console map to load.
    32 # Use space as separator if you want to load more than one font.
    33 # You can use FONT_MAP in order to specify the Unicode map of the font
    34 # in case the font doesn't have it embedded.
    35
    36 # FONT='lat9w-08.psf.gz brl-8x8.psf'
    37 # FONT_MAP=/usr/share/consoletrans/lat9u.uni
    38 # CONSOLE_MAP=/usr/local/share/consoletrans/my_special_encoding.acm
    39
    40 # You can also specify a screen size that setupcon will enforce. This can not
    41 # exceed what the current screen resolution can display according to the size of
    42 # the loaded font.
    43 #
    44 SCREEN_WIDTH=640
    45 SCREEN_HEIGHT480
    46
    47 if [ -f /etc/default/keyboard ]; then
    48 . /etc/default/keyboard
    49 fi

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Josh (j-slater) said : 		#12

$ sudo gedit /etc/default/console-setup
fixed line SCREEN_HEIGHT=480

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Josh (j-slater) said : 		#13

sudo dpkg --configure -a
returned nothing

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Josh (j-slater) said : 		#14

sudo apt-get install update
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get autoremove linux-image-extra-3.13.0-39-generic
sudo apt-get install aptitude

all succeeded, thankyou Manfred and Andrew. Merry Christmas to you both and your families.