package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-9-generic 2.6.27-9.13 failed to install/upgrade: le sous-processus post-installation script a retourn? une erreur de sortie d'?tat 1

[s1055032]

Just automatic update has failed on every machine we had installed ubuntu on. Same package !
PS : french language packets installed
Ubuntu release is Intrepid
We expected normal update and reboot after.
We have got a message packet was not installed.

Should we be able to help you, please feel free to contact us on our mail.
Though I'm French, I believe I can manage english a bit ;)

Kind regards

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: le sous-processus post-installation script a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
Package: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-9-generic 2.6.27-9.13
SourcePackage: linux-restricted-modules
Title: package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-9-generic 2.6.27-9.13 failed to install/upgrade: le sous-processus post-installation script a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[s1055032 (emeaweb)]

I have got same error on other machine on Intrepid AMD64

[Ghaith Hachem (ghaith)]

running dpkg --configure -a from terminal will give you :
$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.92bubuntu16) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)

Setting up linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-10-generic (2.6.27-10.14) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-10-generic

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-10-generic
dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-10-generic (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-restricted-modules-generic:
 linux-restricted-modules-generic depends on linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-10-generic; however:
  Package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-10-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-generic (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-10-generic

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-10-generic
dpkg: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

What's relevent here is gzip: stdout: No space left on device, i got it having my boot partition full
i don't think this is a valid bug, however a notification from the gui would have been nice..

[s1055032 (emeaweb)]

Ghaith Hachem a écrit :
> running dpkg --configure -a from terminal will give you :
> $ sudo dpkg --configure -a
> Setting up initramfs-tools (0.92bubuntu16) ...
> update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
>
> Setting up linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-10-generic (2.6.27-10.14) ...
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-10-generic
>
> gzip: stdout: No space left on device
> update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-10-generic
> dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-10-generic (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-restricted-modules-generic:
> linux-restricted-modules-generic depends on linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-10-generic; however:
> Package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-10-generic is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-generic (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-10-generic
>
> gzip: stdout: No space left on device
> update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-10-generic
> dpkg: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
> What's relevent here is gzip: stdout: No space left on device, i got it having my boot partition full
> i don't think this is a valid bug, however a notification from the gui would have been nice..
>
>
This is exactly what the message says.
However, I'm kind of surprised.
The installation has been made just after Intrepid was released and my
root partition still has 166 Gio left...

This also happens on my wife's laptop which is under Intrepid i386 and
was reinstalled for Intrepid as well.

I hope that may help someone...

Thank you all !

Kind regards

--

Si un jour on te reproche que ton travail n'est pas un travail de
professionnel, dis toi que :

Des amateurs ont construit l'arche de Noé, et des professionnels le
Titanic.

Denis.

[s1055032 (emeaweb)]

This is exactly what the message says.
However, I'm kind of surprised.
The installation has been made just after Intrepid was released and my root partition still has 166 Gio left...

This also happens on my wife's laptop which is under Intrepid i386 and was reinstalled for Intrepid as well.

I hope that may help someone...

Thank you all !

Kind regards

[Ghaith Hachem (ghaith)]

What's the output of df -h ?
try manually deleting old images from your /boot then running dpkg --configure -a , if that works (it did for me) go in synaptic and remove old kernels (linux-image-2.6.xx) keep the newest, and one older then that..
hope that helps.

[s1055032 (emeaweb)]

OK then I understood the room I had to get was in my /boot partition.
Therefore, I used Gparted live CD to expand it.
At first a documentation about ubuntu was saying to make a /boot partition of 32 MB using ext3. I have expanded it to 130 MB and that's OK now.

I will do the same on my wife's laptop.

I just would like to add that having met that error in the past under Hardy, I was unable to find out a solution or even a cause (lack of room on /boot) on ubuntu forums. Of course some said I was lacking space. But nowhere I was able to find out that capital information : lack of room on /boot.

I just hope it will be usefull to someone.

Thanks a lot for your help

Kind regards

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, this bug is a duplicate of bug 105113 (which is regarding update-manager not checking for free space when installing regular update) and 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 in it. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.