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continuous dpkg warning: there's no installed package matching linux-image-3.5.0-36-generic:i386

Asked by bo rislav

My ubuntu installation is unstable, always get messages for errors, firefox crashes unexpectedly.. While I'm trying to update the packages no matter I use Software update graphical application or a terminal commands it fails. The error is kind of one and the same:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  linux-image-3.5.0-36-generic
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching linux-image-3.5.0-36-generic:i386

I have tried a hundred online tutorials to fix that, even installed synaptic package manager - mark it for uninstallation try to apply changes - same result - the package is still in the list for removal and no chance to remove it. Typed a thousand times commands to fix the MergeList, status, etc.. - no change. The package is missing and still no chance to remove/install/get rid of it.

As long as I try to fix that in an old computer - it does not recognize without kernel panic any usb installer i did - it is impossible for me to reinstall the ubuntu and the only option is to fix that, but dunno how.

Any help will be appreciated.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Please provide the output of the following terminal commands:

uname -a
lsb_release -a
dpkg -l | grep linux-image
dpkg --audit
dpkg --print-architecture
dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

These commands will not solve your problem, but their output might provide some additional hints to identify the root cause.

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bo rislav (nnmlss) said : 		#2

lili@lili-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux lili-desktop 3.5.0-41-generic #64~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 12 17:01:55 UTC 2013 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
lili@lili-desktop:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
lili@lili-desktop:~$ dpkg -l|grep linux-image
ii linux-image-3.5.0-23-generic 3.5.0-23.35~precise1 Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.5.0-26-generic 3.5.0-26.42~precise1 Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
iH linux-image-3.5.0-36-generic 3.5.0-36.57~precise1 (no description available)
ii linux-image-3.5.0-41-generic 3.5.0-41.64~precise1 Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
lili@lili-desktop:~$
lili@lili-desktop:~$ dpkg --audit
dpkg: error: unable to open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock for testing: Permission denied
lili@lili-desktop:~$ dpkg --print-architecture
i386
lili@lili-desktop:~$ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

lili@lili-desktop:~$

-------------- using sudo for the permission denied command:
lili@lili-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --audit
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-3.5.0-36-generic (no description available)

lili@lili-desktop:~$

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bo rislav (nnmlss) said : 		#3

After using

   sudo dpkg --remove linux-image-3.5.0-36-generic

the problem was solved. Thanks for your help :)

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bo rislav (nnmlss) said : 		#4

it's not so important now, but if you can answer me why any USB stick created by me using http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx or even the native usb-creator-gtk in ubuntu mashine starts good but when I try to Test ubuntu without installing if ends in a kernel panic..

 An year before I was able to do that only with 10.04 ubuntu release startup disk and manually update the system to the newest release, but yesterday even older ubuntu releases did not succeed...

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bo rislav (nnmlss) said : 		#5

sorry did not want to reopen the question

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#6

Do not mix two different topics in one question, you should create a separate one for the USB stick issue.

Just a first short hint: have you verified that the download of the .iso file went ok by calculating and comparing the md5sum values?
see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM