Upgrade to 9.04?

[Willis Taylor]

Long story made short, I upgraded my 8.04 LTS to 8.10 with a good deal f
assistance, dpkg and apt-get clean.  It will not upgrade to 9.04 so that
I can move up to 9.10.  When I try to open Synaptic I receive the
following;


> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure
> -a' to correct the problem. 
> 
> E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
> 

The following is the same from Terminal ad from Shell;


> th1bill at th1bill-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get clean 
> 
> [sudo] password for th1bill: 
> 
> th1bill at th1bill-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a 
> 
> Setting up initramfs-tools (0.92bubuntu29) ... 
> 
> update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) 
> 
> 
> Setting up linux-image-2.6.28-3-rt (2.6.28-3.12) ... 
> 
> Running depmod. 
> 
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-3-rt 
> 
> cpio: ./bin/udevinfo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory 
> 
> update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-3-rt 
> 
> Failed to create initrd image. 
> 
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.28-3-rt (--configure): 
> 
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 
> 
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-3-rt: 
> 
> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-3-rt depends on
> linux-image-2.6.28-3-rt; however: 
> 
> Package linux-image-2.6.28-3-rt is not configured yet. 
> 
> dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-3-rt
> (--configure): 
> 
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured 
> 
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
> linux-restricted-modules-rt: 
> 
> linux-restricted-modules-rt depends on
> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-3-rt; however: 
> 
> Package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-3-rt is not configured yet. 
> 
> dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-rt (--configure): 
> 
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured 
> 
> Setting up linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic (2.6.28-15.52) ... 
> 
> Running depmod. 
> 
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-15-generic 
> 
> cpio: ./bin/udevinfo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory 
> 
> update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-15-generic 
> 
> Failed to create initrd image. 
> 
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic (--configure): 
> 
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 
> 
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-rt: 
> 
> linux-image-rt depends on linux-image-2.6.28-3-rt; however: 
> 
> Package linux-image-2.6.28-3-rt is not configured yet. 
> 
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-rt (--configure): 
> 
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured 
> 
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-15-generic: 
> 
> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-15-generic depends on
> linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic; however: 
> 
> Package linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic is not configured yet. 
> 
> dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-15-generic
> (--configure): 
> 
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured 
> 
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-rt: 
> 
> linux-rt depends on linux-image-rt (= 2.6.28.3.1); however: 
> 
> Package linux-image-rt is not configured yet. 
> 
> linux-rt depends on linux-restricted-modules-rt (= 2.6.28.3.1);
> however: 
> 
> Package linux-restricted-modules-rt is not configured yet. 
> 
> dpkg: error processing linux-rt (--configure): 
> 
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured 
> 
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
> linux-image-generic: 
> 
> linux-image-generic depends on linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic;
> however: 
> 
> Package linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic is not configured yet. 
> 
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-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-2.6.28-15-generic; however: 
> 
> Package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-15-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-image-generic (= 2.6.28.15.20);
> however: 
> 
> Package linux-image-generic is not configured yet. 
> 
> linux-generic depends on linux-restricted-modules-generic (=
> 2.6.28.15.20); however: 
> 
> Package linux-restricted-modules-generic is not configured yet. 
> 
> dpkg: error processing linux-generic (--configure): 
> 
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured 
> 
> Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... 
> 
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-3-rt 
> 
> cpio: ./bin/udevinfo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory 
> 
> update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-3-rt 
> 
> dpkg: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status
> 1 
> 
> th1bill at th1bill-desktop:~$ 
> 

I am two full days getting to this point and I have backed up my Home
Directory to DVD.  Would I be better off t cease trying to grow sme hair
to pull out and just do a clean install from the live cd?  I have been
running the i386 on my dual core because I see no justification for
swapping to the 64 bit yet.  Because I d web site work fr a friend and
he foolishly spent 600 dollars for a years hosting with Homestead I must
run windoz in the VirtualBox to work on his one website.  This setup has
2 gig of memory, the dual core AMD ad the disk is formatted in ext3.

I'm sorry for the length of this but thank you in advance.