When I try to install applications or update this are the error messages I've got. sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 20 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up cron (3.0pl1-100ubuntu2) ... usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] remove update-rc.d [-n] defaults [NN | sNN kNN] update-rc.d [-n] start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] . -n: not really -f: force dpkg: error processing cron (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up rsync (2.6.9-6ubuntu2) ... usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] remove update-rc.d [-n] defaults [NN | sNN kNN] update-rc.d [-n] start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] . -n: not really -f: force dpkg: error processing rsync (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up acpid (1.0.4-5ubuntu9) ... usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] remove update-rc.d [-n] defaults [NN | sNN kNN] update-rc.d [-n] start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] . -n: not really -f: force dpkg: error processing acpid (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acpi-support: acpi-support depends on acpid (>= 1.0.4-1ubuntu4); however: Package acpid is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing acpi-support (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up apmd (3.2.2-8.1ubuntu1) ... usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] remove update-rc.d [-n] defaults [NN | sNN kNN] update-rc.d [-n] start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] . -n: not really -f: force dpkg: error processing apmd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up hotkey-setup (0.1-17ubuntu21) ... usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] remove update-rc.d [-n] defaults [NN | sNN kNN] update-rc.d [-n] start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] . -n: not really -f: force dpkg: error processing hotkey-setup (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up nvidia-kernel-common (20051028+1ubuntu8) ... ************************************************************************ * * The update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used! * ************************************************************************ usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] remove update-rc.d [-n] defaults [NN | sNN kNN] update-rc.d [-n] start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] . -n: not really -f: force dpkg: error processing nvidia-kernel-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-generic: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-generic depends on nvidia-kernel-common; however: Package nvidia-kernel-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-generic (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-restricted-modules-generic: linux-restricted-modules-generic depends on linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-generic; however: Package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-generic is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-generic (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-generic: linux-generic depends on linux-restricted-modules-generic (= 2.6.24.19.21); however: Package linux-restricted-modules-generic is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing linux-generic (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-16-generic: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-16-generic depends on nvidia-kernel-common; however: Package nvidia-kernel-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-16-generic (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-17-generic: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-17-generic depends on nvidia-kernel-common; however: Package nvidia-kernel-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-17-generic (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-18-generic: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-18-generic depends on nvidia-kernel-common; however: Package nvidia-kernel-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-18-generic (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up ntp (1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-3ubuntu2) ... usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] remove update-rc.d [-n] defaults [NN | sNN kNN] update-rc.d [-n] start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] . -n: not really -f: force dpkg: error processing ntp (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of powermanagement-interface: powermanagement-interface depends on acpi-support (>= 0.17); however: Package acpi-support is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing powermanagement-interface (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up pulseaudio (0.9.10-1ubuntu1) ... usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] remove update-rc.d [-n] defaults [NN | sNN kNN] update-rc.d [-n] start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] . -n: not really -f: force dpkg: error processing pulseaudio (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop: ubuntu-desktop depends on acpi-support; however: Package acpi-support is not configured yet. ubuntu-desktop depends on acpid; however: Package acpid is not configured yet. ubuntu-desktop depends on apmd; however: Package apmd is not configured yet. ubuntu-desktop depends on hotkey-setup; however: Package hotkey-setup is not configured yet. ubuntu-desktop depends on powermanagement-interface; however: Package powermanagement-interface is not configured yet. ubuntu-desktop depends on pulseaudio; however: Package pulseaudio is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing ubuntu-desktop (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up sysklogd (1.5-1ubuntu1) ... * Stopping system log daemon... [fail] usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] remove update-rc.d [-n] defaults [NN | sNN kNN] update-rc.d [-n] start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] . -n: not really -f: force dpkg: error processing sysklogd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-minimal: ubuntu-minimal depends on sysklogd; however: Package sysklogd is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing ubuntu-minimal (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up klogd (1.5-1ubuntu1) ... * Stopping kernel log daemon... [ OK ] usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] remove update-rc.d [-n] defaults [NN | sNN kNN] update-rc.d [-n] start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] . -n: not really -f: force dpkg: error processing klogd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: cron rsync acpid acpi-support apmd hotkey-setup nvidia-kernel-common linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-generic linux-restricted-modules-generic linux-generic linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-16-generic linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-17-generic linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-18-generic ntp powermanagement-interface pulseaudio ubuntu-desktop sysklogd ubuntu-minimal klogd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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