package linux-image-3.16.0-71-generic 3.16.0-71.92~14.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1

[cltien]

Just happened after software update, I did not restart, instead, I powered off and powered on the next day.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: linux-image-3.16.0-71-generic 3.16.0-71.92~14.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-71.92~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt27
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-71-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 17 23:32:21 2016
DuplicateSignature: package:linux-image-3.16.0-71-generic:3.16.0-71.92~14.04.1:run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1
ErrorMessage: run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-06 (163 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Edubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.17.5ubuntu5.6
 apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.13
SourcePackage: initramfs-tools
Title: package linux-image-3.16.0-71-generic 3.16.0-71.92~14.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[cltien (cltien)]

Try to partial upgrade as full upgrade shows error. Anyway partial upgrade still failed.

[robert vincent (bobrgv-btinternet)]

When updating the process fails, a message comes and says the /boot is full, checked it and it is approx 99% full, it contains copies of a approx 20Mb size files and also copies of other multiple but smaller files, these files are all dated.
This is a persistent fault.
Cannot edit the /boot file as No Permission shows.

[cltien (cltien)]

I just used 15% of my root directory, where the /boot resides. This shouldn't be a failure caused by disk space.

[cltien (cltien)]

I noticed that my /run mounted as tmpfs and is 371M and just used 1.5M. There is still plenty of room.

My system is installed in the second disk (/dev/sdb1) and boot loader in /dev/sda is the grub.

After the installation failed, I can find the vmlinuz and initrd.img are already installed in the /boot. One thing odd is that the driver /lib/modules/<my current version> took 192M, while the newly installed /lib/modules/3.16.0-73-generic used 33M and the same size by /lib/modules/3.16.0-76-generic.

This drive is a flash drive, and I didn't find any error logged with the 'dmesg' command.

The same error still happened without any clue.

[cltien (cltien)]

Finally I figured out the error seems happened when dealing with fuse, so I uninstalled fuse and fuse again, it then update all the initrm packages of each kernel, then I am able to remove old kernels. I think this is caused that once I installed libfuse from source code, it may changed the system configuration.