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initramfs-tools package

package linux-firmware 1.187.33 failed to install/upgrade: installed linux-firmware package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

Bug #1983565 reported by Iveta Georgieva on 2022-08-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #798414: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't enough free space--or provide an automatic tool for removal of old files. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu6.7) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Setting up linux-firmware (1.187.33) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-43-generic
I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/dm-2
I: (/dev/mapper/vgubuntu-swap_1)
I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
Error 24 : Write error : cannot write compressed block
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 lz4 -9 -l 24
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-43-generic with 1.
dpkg: error processing package linux-firmware (--configure):
installed linux-firmware package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu6.7) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-43-generic
I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/dm-2
I: (/dev/mapper/vgubuntu-swap_1)
I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
Error 24 : Write error : cannot write compressed block
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 lz4 -9 -l 24
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-43-generic with 1.
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-firmware
initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: linux-firmware 1.187.33
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-43.46~20.04.1-generic 5.15.39
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-43-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.24
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
Date: Thu Aug 4 11:20:49 2022
Dependencies:

ErrorMessage: installed linux-firmware package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-11-01 (640 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
MachineType: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. X705UDR
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcFB: 0 i915drmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.15.0-43-generic root=/dev/mapper/vgubuntu-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.8, Python 3.8.10, python3-minimal, 3.8.2-0ubuntu2
PythonDetails: N/A
RelatedPackageVersions: grub-pc 2.04-1ubuntu26.15
SourcePackage: initramfs-tools
Title: package linux-firmware 1.187.33 failed to install/upgrade: installed linux-firmware package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 04/17/2019
dmi.bios.release: 5.12
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: X705UDR.317
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: X705UDR
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrX705UDR.317:bd04/17/2019:br5.12:svnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:pnX705UDR:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnX705UDR:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:ct10:cvr1.0:sku:
dmi.product.family: VivoBook
dmi.product.name: X705UDR
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.

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Iveta Georgieva (ivggeorgi) wrote on 2022-08-04:

unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log Edit (21.0 KiB, text/plain)
AlsaInfo.txt Edit (38.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
AptOrdering.txt Edit (787 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
AudioDevicesInUse.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CRDA.txt Edit (883 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (257.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (772 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (257.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (5.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (4.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DuplicateSignature.txt Edit (603 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IwConfig.txt Edit (610 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (36.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci-vt.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (465 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb-t.txt Edit (698 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb-v.txt Edit (38.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (11.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (5.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (10.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RfKill.txt Edit (112 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (265.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
WifiSyslog.txt Edit (900.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
acpidump.txt Edit (1.1 MiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote on 2023-08-14:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 798414, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.