Attempting upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10, could not install initramfs-tools

[Russell Lewis]

1.Version:
Running:
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04

2.Package info causing problem:
initramfs-tools:
  Installed: 0.99ubuntu13
  Candidate: 0.99ubuntu13
  Version table:
 *** 0.99ubuntu13 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3.Expected result:
A clean upgrade.

4. Observed result:
An error popped up saying:
Could not install 'initramfs-tools'
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

You seem to have run out of free space:

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...^M
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-31-generic^M
cryptsetup: WARNING: failed to detect canonical device of /dev/sda3^M
^M
gzip: stdout: No space left on device^M
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1^M
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-31-generic with 1.^M
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):^M
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1^M

From what I can tell it looks like you have a separate boot partition and this seems to be full. I'd remove some older kernels and then continue the upgrade.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Removed upgrade-software-version tag, this is only required for "Bugs that request new software versions"