package linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-27-386 2.6.24-27.45 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1

Synaptic Package Manager reports an error in package 2.6.24-27-386
Attempts to remove it or to install any other updates do not complete and result in the message:
E: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-27-386: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1

Then:
Not all changes and updates succeeded. For further details of the failure, please expand the terminal panel below.

The terminal panel contained a bunch of data, but I was not able to cut-paste it and I don't know where it is stored

uname -a returns:
Linux freekbox 2.6.15-28-386 #1 PREEMPT Wed Jul 18 22:50:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

cat /proc/version_signature returns:
cat: /proc/version_signature: No such file or directory

dmesg returns:
[17179569.184000] Linux version 2.6.15-28-386 (buildd@terranova) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 PREEMPT Wed Jul 18 22:50:32 UTC 2007
[17179569.184000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fed0000 (usable)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000001fed0000 - 000000001fef0000 (ACPI NVS)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000001fef0000 - 000000001ff00000 (usable)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000feea0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[17179569.184000] 511MB LOWMEM available.
[17179569.184000] found SMP MP-table at 000f7d80
[17179569.184000] On node 0 totalpages: 130816
[17179569.184000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
[17179569.184000] DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
[17179569.184000] Normal zone: 126720 pages, LIFO batch:31
[17179569.184000] HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
[17179569.184000] DMI 2.3 present.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 COMPAQ ) @ 0x000e0010
[17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 COMPAQ CPQ0004 0x20010405 0x00000000) @ 0x000e0080
[17179569.184000] ACPI: FADT (v001 COMPAQ SOLANO 0x00000001 0x00000000) @ 0x000e0130
[17179569.184000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ CORE_UTL 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e136c
[17179569.184000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ VILLTBL1 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e14e0
[17179569.184000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ FHUB 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e32ed
[17179569.184000] ACPI: MADT (v001 COMPAQ SOLANO 0x00000001 0x00000000) @ 0x000e01a4
[17179569.184000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ APIC 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e3277
[17179569.184000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ PNP_PRSS 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e2380
[17179569.184000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ S3 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e2a8b
[17179569.184000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ PIDETM 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e2c1f
[17179569.184000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ GTF0 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e2e83
[17179569.184000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ SIDETM 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e2d51
[17179569.184000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ GTF2 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x000e307d
[17179569.184000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 COMPAQ DSDT 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
[17179569.184000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xf808
[17179569.184000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[17179569.184000] Processor #0 6:8 APIC version 17
[17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
[17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1])
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x08] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[17179569.184000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 8, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[17179569.184000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
[17179569.184000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[17179569.184000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 1ff00000:defa0000)
[17179569.184000] Built 1 zonelists
[17179569.184000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=4d6dce34-04ae-4af3-91a3-ac0f20a1c83a ro quiet splash
[17179569.184000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[17179569.184000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
[17179569.184000] Initializing CPU#0
[17179569.184000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
[17179569.184000] Detected 996.940 MHz processor.
[17179569.184000] Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
[17179569.184000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[17179572.148000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[17179572.152000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[17179572.200000] Memory: 507956k/523264k available (1977k kernel code, 14464k reserved, 605k data, 288k init, 0k highmem)
[17179572.200000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[17179572.280000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 1995.37 BogoMIPS (lpj=3990757)
[17179572.280000] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[17179572.280000] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[17179572.280000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[17179572.280000] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[17179572.280000] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[17179572.280000] CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
[17179572.280000] CPU: L2 cache: 256K
[17179572.280000] CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000
[17179572.280000] mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
[17179572.280000] CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
[17179572.280000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[17179572.280000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[17179572.280000] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[17179572.296000] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[17179573.852000] Freeing initrd memory: 6668k freed
[17179573.884000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found!
[17179573.888000] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[17179573.888000] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[17179574.032000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[17179574.032000] EISA bus registered
[17179574.032000] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[17179574.032000] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xe838d, last bus=2
[17179574.032000] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[17179574.032000] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20051216
[17179574.036000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[17179574.036000] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[17179574.036000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11)
[17179574.040000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11)
[17179574.040000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11)
[17179574.040000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
[17179574.040000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11)
[17179574.040000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11)
[17179574.040000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
[17179574.040000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11)
[17179574.040000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[17179574.040000] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[17179574.040000] ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
[17179574.044000] Boot video device is 0000:00:02.0
[17179574.044000] PCI quirk: region f800-f87f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
[17179574.044000] PCI quirk: region fa00-fa3f claimed by ICH4 GPIO
[17179574.044000] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
[17179574.044000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[17179574.048000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB_._PRT]
[17179574.052000] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[17179574.052000] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[17179574.060000] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 15 devices
[17179574.060000] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[17179574.060000] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[17179574.060000] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
[17179574.244000] pnp: 00:0c: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
[17179574.244000] pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x400-0x41f has been reserved
[17179574.244000] pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x420-0x43f has been reserved
[17179574.244000] pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x440-0x45f has been reserved
[17179574.244000] pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x460-0x47f could not be reserved
[17179574.244000] pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0xf800-0xf81f could not be reserved
[17179574.244000] pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0xf820-0xf83f could not be reserved
[17179574.244000] pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0xf840-0xf85f has been reserved
[17179574.244000] pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0xf860-0xf87f has been reserved
[17179574.244000] PCI: Ignore bogus resource 6 [0:0] of 0000:00:02.0
[17179574.244000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
[17179574.244000] IO window: 1000-1fff
[17179574.244000] MEM window: 40000000-404fffff
[17179574.244000] PREFETCH window: disabled.
[17179574.244000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
[17179574.248000] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[17179574.248000] audit(1282596156.248:1): initialized
[17179574.248000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[17179574.248000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[17179574.248000] Initializing Cryptographic API
[17179574.248000] io scheduler noop registered
[17179574.248000] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[17179574.248000] io scheduler deadline registered
[17179574.248000] io scheduler cfq registered
[17179574.248000] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[17179574.600000] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[17179574.636000] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f0e:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[17179574.636000] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[17179574.636000] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[17179574.636000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[17179574.636000] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[17179574.640000] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[17179574.644000] 00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[17179574.644000] 00:08: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[17179574.644000] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[17179574.644000] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[17179574.644000] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[17179574.644000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[17179574.644000] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[17179574.644000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
[17179574.644000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 2
[17179574.644000] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[17179574.644000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[17179574.668000] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
[17179574.688000] IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[17179574.688000] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[17179574.688000] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[17179574.688000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
[17179574.688000] TCP reno registered
[17179574.688000] TCP bic registered
[17179574.688000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[17179574.688000] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[17179574.688000] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[17179574.688000] Using IPI Shortcut mode
[17179574.688000] ACPI wakeup devices:
[17179574.688000] PCI0 HUB COM1 COM2 USB1 USB2 PBTN
[17179574.688000] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
[17179574.688000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 288k freed
[17179574.796000] vga16fb: initializing
[17179574.796000] vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
[17179574.900000] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x25
[17179574.900000] fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
[17179575.984000] Capability LSM initialized
[17179576.056000] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
[17179577.056000] ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
[17179577.056000] ICH2: chipset revision 1
[17179577.056000] ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[17179577.056000] ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2460-0x2467, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
[17179577.056000] ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2468-0x246f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
[17179577.056000] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[17179577.348000] hda: WDC WD800BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive
[17179578.020000] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[17179578.040000] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[17179578.776000] hdc: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-103S 011, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[17179579.112000] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[17179579.124000] hda: max request size: 128KiB
[17179579.144000] hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
[17179579.144000] hda: cache flushes not supported
[17179579.144000] hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
[17179579.160000] hdc: ATAPI DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
[17179579.160000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[17179579.436000] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
[17179579.436000] usbcore: registered new driver hub
[17179579.440000] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
[17179579.444000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.4[C] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179579.444000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.4 to 64
[17179579.444000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: UHCI Host Controller
[17179579.444000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[17179579.444000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: irq 169, io base 0x00002440
[17179579.444000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179579.444000] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179579.628000] Attempting manual resume
[17179579.672000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[17179579.672000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[17179590.416000] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
[17179590.468000] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[17179590.476000] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[17179590.476000] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
[17179590.492000] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[17179590.496000] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[17179590.512000] input: GenPS/2 Genius <NULL> as /class/input/input2
[17179590.528000] hw_random hardware driver 1.0.0 loaded
[17179590.604000] agpgart: Detected an Intel i815 Chipset.
[17179590.608000] agpgart: detected 4MB dedicated video ram.
[17179590.612000] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0x44000000
[17179590.620000] i810_smbus 0000:00:02.0: i810/i815 i2c device found.
[17179591.176000] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
[17179591.384000] ltmodem: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
[17179591.388000] Loading Lucent Modem Controller driver version 8.26-alk-8
[17179591.388000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
[17179591.388000] Detected Parameters Irq=10 BaseAddress=0x1000 ComAddress=0x1440
[17179591.388000] ttyLTM0 at I/O 0x1000 (irq = 10) is a Lucent/Agere Modem
[17179591.444000] ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413)
[17179591.788000] wlan: 0.8.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)
[17179591.952000] ath_rate_sample: 1.2
[17179591.976000] ath_pci: 0.9.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)
[17179591.976000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
[17179592.360000] e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.4.14-k4-NAPI
[17179592.360000] e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation
[17179592.360000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
[17179592.460000] e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0x40100000, irq 193, MAC addr 00:02:A5:7E:9B:40
[17179592.476000] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[17179592.492000] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[17179592.660000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
[17179592.660000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
[17179592.744000] Build date: Jun 25 2007
[17179592.744000] Debugging version (IEEE80211)
[17179592.744000] ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
[17179592.744000] ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
[17179592.744000] ath0: turboG rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
[17179592.744000] ath0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
[17179592.744000] ath0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
[17179592.744000] ath0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
[17179592.744000] ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
[17179592.744000] ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
[17179592.744000] ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
[17179592.744000] ath0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
[17179592.744000] ath0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
[17179592.744000] Debugging version (ATH)
[17179592.744000] ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x40000000, irq=185
[17179592.772000] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1
[17179592.840000] e100: eth1: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
[17179592.972000] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 52025 usecs
[17179592.972000] intel8x0: clocking to 41162
[17179593.200000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[17179593.376000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[17179593.376000] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[17179593.376000] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[17179593.660000] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[17179593.760000] fuse init (API version 7.3)
[17179594.008000] Adding 248996k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:248996k
[17179594.784000] EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
[17179595.728000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[17179595.728000] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
[17179595.728000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[17179596.300000] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
[17179597.364000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[17179597.364000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
[17179597.584000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[17179597.644000] pcc_acpi: loading...
[17179602.084000] [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
[17179602.096000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
[17179602.096000] [drm] Initialized i810 1.4.0 20030605 on minor 0
[17179602.096000] mtrr: base(0x44000000) is not aligned on a size(0x280000) boundary
[17179602.108000] [drm] Using v1.4 init.
[17179602.464000] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[17179603.244000] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[17179603.244000] apm: overridden by ACPI.
[17179603.812000] ath0: no IPv6 routers present

sudo lspci -vnvn returns:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub [8086:1130] (rev 02)
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0
 Capabilities: [88] Vendor Specific Information

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller (CGC) [8086:1132] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Unknown device [0e11:001a]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 209
 Region 0: Memory at 44000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
 Region 1: Memory at 40500000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
 Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=64
 I/O behind bridge: 00001000-00001fff
 Memory behind bridge: 40000000-404fffff
 Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
 BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-

00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) [8086:2440] (rev 01)
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0

00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller [8086:244b] (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:2411]
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0
 Region 4: I/O ports at 2460 [size=16]

00:1f.4 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 [8086:2444] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:2411]
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 169
 Region 4: I/O ports at 2440 [size=32]

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:2445] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Unknown device [0e11:000f]
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 201
 Region 0: I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
 Region 1: I/O ports at 2400 [size=64]

02:08.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller [8086:2449] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100 VM [0e11:0012]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 66 (2000ns min, 14000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 193
 Region 0: Memory at 40100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Region 1: I/O ports at 1400 [size=64]
 Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-

02:09.0 Communication controller [0780]: Agere Systems 56k WinModem [11c1:0440] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Agere Systems LT WinModem 56k Data+Fax+Voice+Dsvd [11c1:0440]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0 (63000ns min, 3500ns max)
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 177
 Region 0: Memory at 40200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
 Region 1: I/O ports at 1440 [size=8]
 Region 2: I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
 Capabilities: [f8] Power Management version 2
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

02:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor [168c:0013] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Unknown device [1948:3a02]
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 185
 Region 0: Memory at 40000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-

Ubuntu system and release:
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS
Release: 8.04

apt-cache policy packagename returned:
W: Unable to locate package packagename

Following is the contents of /boot:
total 96402
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 266735 2007-07-18 16:36 abi-2.6.15-28-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 419412 2008-08-20 21:41 abi-2.6.24-19-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 419541 2008-10-21 20:08 abi-2.6.24-21-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 419541 2008-11-24 14:42 abi-2.6.24-22-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 419541 2009-04-01 18:13 abi-2.6.24-23-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 419541 2009-09-18 13:14 abi-2.6.24-24-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 419541 2009-10-20 04:42 abi-2.6.24-25-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 419603 2009-12-01 14:49 abi-2.6.24-26-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69967 2007-07-18 15:49 config-2.6.15-28-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80028 2008-08-20 21:41 config-2.6.24-19-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80041 2008-10-21 20:08 config-2.6.24-21-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80041 2008-11-24 14:42 config-2.6.24-22-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80030 2009-04-01 18:13 config-2.6.24-23-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80030 2009-09-18 13:14 config-2.6.24-24-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80092 2009-10-20 04:42 config-2.6.24-25-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80092 2009-12-01 14:49 config-2.6.24-26-386
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2010-06-08 03:12 grub
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2007-04-04 12:45 initrd.img -> initrd.img-2.6.15-28-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6828226 2008-08-20 18:35 initrd.img-2.6.15-28-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8129798 2008-09-06 01:17 initrd.img-2.6.24-19-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8129891 2008-09-06 01:16 initrd.img-2.6.24-19-386.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8322315 2008-11-07 16:10 initrd.img-2.6.24-21-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8322297 2008-10-28 15:20 initrd.img-2.6.24-21-386.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8320765 2008-12-01 13:48 initrd.img-2.6.24-22-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8320715 2008-12-01 13:48 initrd.img-2.6.24-22-386.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8322089 2009-04-07 00:58 initrd.img-2.6.24-23-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8321696 2009-02-10 12:25 initrd.img-2.6.24-23-386.bak
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2006-06-08 11:21 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103204 2007-09-28 03:06 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 727165 2007-07-18 16:36 System.map-2.6.15-28-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 883240 2008-08-20 21:41 System.map-2.6.24-19-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 883597 2008-10-21 20:08 System.map-2.6.24-21-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 883597 2008-11-24 14:42 System.map-2.6.24-22-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 883785 2009-04-01 18:13 System.map-2.6.24-23-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 884272 2009-09-18 13:14 System.map-2.6.24-24-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 884503 2009-10-20 04:42 System.map-2.6.24-25-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 884503 2009-12-01 14:49 System.map-2.6.24-26-386
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2007-04-04 12:45 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.15-28-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1415298 2007-07-18 16:36 vmlinuz-2.6.15-28-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1847672 2008-08-20 21:41 vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1848152 2008-10-21 20:08 vmlinuz-2.6.24-21-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1848792 2008-11-24 14:42 vmlinuz-2.6.24-22-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1849880 2009-04-01 18:13 vmlinuz-2.6.24-23-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1853496 2009-09-18 13:14 vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1853272 2009-10-20 04:42 vmlinuz-2.6.24-25-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1853208 2009-12-01 14:49 vmlinuz-2.6.24-26-386

Some command returned an error message that 2.6.24 does not exist, but I can not now duplicate that result.

Can I just remove all the 2.6.24 files in /boot and try re-installing the waiting updates?

Thomas Smith
<email address hidden>

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 23 19:56:36 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal ltmodem
Package: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-27-386 2.6.24-27.45
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24
Title: package linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-27-386 2.6.24-27.45 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.15-28-386 i686