package initramfs-tools 0.136ubuntu6.6 failed to install/upgrade: installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

[J R]

3 weeks after installing 20.04.3

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: initramfs-tools 0.136ubuntu6.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-44.48~20.04.2-generic 5.11.22
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-44-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.21
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
Date: Mon Jan 10 13:03:11 2022
ErrorMessage: installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-12-22 (19 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210819)
PackageArchitecture: all
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.8, Python 3.8.10, python3-minimal, 3.8.2-0ubuntu2
PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.18, python-is-python2, 2.7.17-4
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.19.7ubuntu3
 apt 2.0.6
SourcePackage: initramfs-tools
Title: package initramfs-tools 0.136ubuntu6.6 failed to install/upgrade: installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I noticed that your boot partition is full. Could you provide the output of "ls -l /boot"? Additionally, how did you install Ubuntu?

[J R (thealpman)]

Hello,
Thank you for your answer. Here is the output :

jr@jrUbuntu:~$ ls -l /boot
total 339272
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 254083 déc. 14 11:29 config-5.11.0-44-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 254083 janv. 7 00:13 config-5.11.0-46-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 237940 janv. 6 22:56 config-5.4.0-94-generic
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 janv. 1 1970 efi
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 janv. 12 08:25 grub
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 janv. 12 08:24 initrd.img -> initrd.img-5.4.0-94-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 102091693 janv. 10 13:07 initrd.img-5.11.0-44-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 102091767 janv. 14 09:38 initrd.img-5.11.0-46-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88223747 janv. 12 08:25 initrd.img-5.4.0-94-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 janv. 12 08:24 initrd.img.old -> initrd.img-5.11.0-46-generic
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 déc. 22 11:00 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182704 août 18 2020 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184380 août 18 2020 memtest86+.elf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184884 août 18 2020 memtest86+_multiboot.bin
-rw------- 1 root root 5864386 déc. 14 11:29 System.map-5.11.0-44-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 5864386 janv. 7 00:13 System.map-5.11.0-46-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 4756293 janv. 6 22:56 System.map-5.4.0-94-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 janv. 12 08:24 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-5.4.0-94-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 11746656 déc. 14 16:23 vmlinuz-5.11.0-44-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 11746784 janv. 7 00:27 vmlinuz-5.11.0-46-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 13656320 janv. 7 00:07 vmlinuz-5.4.0-94-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 janv. 12 08:24 vmlinuz.old -> vmlinuz-5.11.0-46-generic
jr@jrUbuntu:~$

There were more files and I ran
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
Then
apt-mark showmanual | grep -E "linux-.*[0-9]" | grep -v "hwe" | xargs -r sudo apt-mark auto

And again
sudo apt autoremove --purge -y

Seems to have deleted a couple files.

Well I installed it in the common way I'd say : USB drive, erase all disk and install encrypted version with LUKS. I connected to a wifi network during the installation.

Then I ran the following commands to reinstall the packages I had on my previous computer (attached file) :
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dselect
sudo dselect update
sudo dpkg --set-selections < liste-des-paquets
sudo apt-get -u dselect-upgrade
(I've been doing this a couple times from previous systems, starting in 20.04, now I'm in 20.04.3).

Do you see what happened ?
Thanks

[J R (thealpman)]

I see these in my package files, maybe I should delete a couple lines ?
linux-generic-hwe-20.04 install
linux-headers-5.11.0-27-generic install
linux-headers-5.11.0-43-generic install
linux-headers-5.4.0-88 install
linux-headers-5.4.0-88-generic install
linux-headers-5.4.0-89 install
linux-headers-5.4.0-89-generic install
linux-headers-5.4.0-91 install
linux-headers-5.4.0-91-generic install
linux-headers-generic install
linux-headers-generic-hwe-20.04 install
linux-hwe-5.11-headers-5.11.0-27 install
linux-hwe-5.11-headers-5.11.0-43 install
linux-image-5.11.0-27-generic install
linux-image-5.11.0-43-generic install
linux-image-5.4.0-88-generic install
linux-image-5.4.0-89-generic install
linux-image-5.4.0-91-generic install
linux-image-generic install
linux-image-generic-hwe-20.04 install
linux-libc-dev:amd64 install
linux-modules-5.11.0-27-generic install
linux-modules-5.11.0-43-generic install
linux-modules-5.4.0-88-generic install
linux-modules-5.4.0-89-generic install
linux-modules-5.4.0-91-generic install
linux-modules-extra-5.11.0-27-generic install
linux-modules-extra-5.11.0-43-generic install
linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-88-generic install
linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-89-generic install
linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-91-generic install

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