Cannot Reset Package Manager
Today I tried downloading a fix for T61 audio problems. Downloading this fix failed. Here are the two links in Ubuntu Launchpad, with the first link referencing the second. I took the download instructions from the second link.
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Now, I cannot synch up my package list. Basically, the package manager thinks I have linux-ubuntu-
Synaptic Package won't exit without trying to remove this; unmarking from removal does not work; and an error occurs 1 back from dpkg. apt-get -f fails the same way.
Here is the post from apt-get -f.
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sudo apt-get -y install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
linux-
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 8405kB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 96753 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-ubuntu-
FATAL: Could not open '/boot/
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.
Cannot find /lib/modules/
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.
dpkg: error processing linux-ubuntu-
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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How do I reset everything? I have Googled and searched my disk looking for where the removal information could be stored. I thought, if I edit out the removal information.
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