linux-image-extra-4.4.0-generic problem installing during upgrade 16.04 LTS

[Richard L Cooper]

Also reported low disk space on "boot" only 1.8 MB left
"Could not examine some of the folders Error opening /boot/lost & Found permission denied"

At end of Upgrade of Ubuntu 16.04LTS with apt upgrade
which was done after apt clean
NB this was a second attempt after a failure of internet for 20 minutes or so and reboot of computer.

linux-image-extra-4.4.0-38-generic-4.4.0-38.57 failed installation.
 in report a screen dump was obtained but the message on the screen says unable to send apport because Max reports already reached.
Problem starts in
gzip: stdout: no space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure find 141 cpio 141 gzip 1
update initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.image 4.4.0-38-generic with 1
dpkg:error processing package initramfs - tools (..configure):
 Subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered with processing:
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-38-generic
linux-image-generic
linux-generic
linux-signed-image-generic
initramfs -tools

E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg .returned error code (1)
rlcooper@rlcooper-HP-250-G3-Notebook-PC:~$

Release Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Ran apt upgrade after apt clean

Connection to Wireless now intermittent: usually instant on booting up.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.

It sounds like you modified your source.list and then used apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade. Were you to have used do-release-upgrade you would have received a warning about the lack of free space in your /boot partition.

[Richard L Cooper (richardlc)]

Many thanks for your replies. I was going by the descriptions of the

Bug #1054927 reported by Henri Sivonen
<https://launchpad.net/%7Ehsivonen> on 2012-09-23

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1357093: Kernels not
autoremoving, causing out of space error on LVM or Encrypted
installation or on any installation, when /
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1357093>
in which identical errors were reported many times, up to 2016 I have
the same bug in Xenial.
My machine sent a report and the bug screen opened when opening Firefox:
I am not sure whether in response to my search for full boot partition
problem or not. It was very helpful anyway!
I used only apt clean and apt upgrade, not dist-upgrade I think.
However I have now solved it with Ubuntu Tweak, using the janitor.

This is a copy of my comment sent at the end of the above bug report:

I have the same bug in Xenial: reported today on request from Jarnos in
bug #798414 on 2016-05-26
Fixed in Ubuntu Tweaks Janitor yesterday. Now I have plenty of room in
boot partition.

I am sorry to have caused confusion. I shall take note of your advice
when updating/upgrading. There were about 15 old kernels and a lot of
other rubbish filling the boot partition before the janitor was used!
Regards
Richard

On 13/10/16 09:41, Brian Murray wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does
> not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to
> a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you
> are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are
> having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if
> you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.
>
> It sounds like you modified your source.list and then used apt-get
> update, apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade. Were you to have used do-
> release-upgrade you would have received a warning about the lack of free
> space in your /boot partition.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Status: New => Invalid
>
> ** Converted to question:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/402973
>

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Richard L Cooper