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package initramfs-tools 0.98.8ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #916696 reported by Nickolas Holloway on 2012-01-15

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)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 from a LiveUSB created in Universal USB Installer. I attempted to activate the Broadcom driver and was presented with this error message.

This is the version of initramfs-tools I'm running:

initramfs-tools:
  Installed: 0.98.8ubuntu3
  Candidate: 0.98.8ubuntu3.1
  Version table:
     0.98.8ubuntu3.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates/main i386 Packages
*** 0.98.8ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I then tried to configure the package using dpkg in Terminal, and was given this output:

ubuntu@ubuntu:/usr/bin$ sudo dpkg -C
The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems
configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using
dpkg --configure <package> or the configure menu option in dselect:
initramfs-tools tools for generating an initramfs

ubuntu@ubuntu:/usr/bin$ sudo dpkg --configure initramfs-tools
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.98.8ubuntu3) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
lzma: Encoder error: -2147467259
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
initramfs-tools
ubuntu@ubuntu:/usr/bin$ cd ../../
ubuntu@ubuntu:/$ sudo rm /vmlinuz
ubuntu@ubuntu:/$ sudo ln -s /cdrom/casper/vmlinuz vmlinuz
ubuntu@ubuntu:/$ sudo dpkg --configure initramfs-tools
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.98.8ubuntu3) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
lzma: Encoder error: -2147467259
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
initramfs-tools

I then tried to update casper, since I found that that may have been the problem, and was given this output:

ubuntu@ubuntu:/$ sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install casper
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 11.04 _Natty Narwhal_ - Release i386 (20110427.1) natty InRelease
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 11.04 _Natty Narwhal_ - Release i386 (20110427.1) natty/main TranslationIndex
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 11.04 _Natty Narwhal_ - Release i386 (20110427.1) natty/restricted TranslationIndex
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 11.04 _Natty Narwhal_ - Release i386 (20110427.1) natty/main Translation-en_US
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 11.04 _Natty Narwhal_ - Release i386 (20110427.1) natty/main Translation-en
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 11.04 _Natty Narwhal_ - Release i386 (20110427.1) natty/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 11.04 _Natty Narwhal_ - Release i386 (20110427.1) natty/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com natty InRelease
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates InRelease
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security InRelease
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com natty Release.gpg [198 B]
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security Release.gpg [198 B]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates Release.gpg [198 B]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security Release [39.8 kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com natty Release [39.8 kB]
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/main Sources [85.3 kB]
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates Release [39.8 kB]
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com natty/main Sources [862 kB]
Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/restricted Sources [14 B]
Get:10 http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/main i386 Packages [262 kB]
Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/restricted i386 Packages [14 B]
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/restricted TranslationIndex
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com natty/restricted Sources [4,104 B]
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com natty/main i386 Packages [1,550 kB]
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com natty-security/restricted Translation-en
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com natty/restricted i386 Packages [8,986 B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com natty/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com natty/restricted TranslationIndex
Get:15 http://archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/main Sources [146 kB]
Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/restricted Sources [753 B]
Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/main i386 Packages [422 kB]
Get:18 http://archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/restricted i386 Packages [839 B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/restricted TranslationIndex
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com natty/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com natty/main Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com natty/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com natty/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com natty-updates/restricted Translation-en
Fetched 3,462 kB in 13s (257 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
casper is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 290 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.98.8ubuntu3) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
lzma: Encoder error: -2147467259
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: initramfs-tools 0.98.8ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
AptOrdering: initramfs-tools: Configure
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jan 15 06:51:46 2012
DpkgTerminalLog:
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.98.8ubuntu3) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
lzma: Encoder error: -2147467259
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: initramfs-tools
Title: package initramfs-tools 0.98.8ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Nickolas Holloway (nholloway2007) wrote on 2012-01-15:

Dependencies.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2012-01-24:

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 881028, 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.

Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2020-02-18:

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This bug was fixed in the package initramfs-tools - 0.136ubuntu1

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initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu1) focal; urgency=low

This bug was fixed in the package initramfs-tools - 0.136ubuntu1

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initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu1) focal; urgency=low

* Merge from Debian unstable.  Remaining changes:
    - Make busybox-initramfs a real runtime dependency, fixing
      kernel install failures with cryptsetup
    - support mounting of loopback devices via loop*= parameters
    - Drop hooks/keymap, scripts/init-top/keymap, and associated code;
      console-setup takes care of this in Ubuntu.
    - Add a new 'fixrtc' script that tries to set the system clock forward
      based on the last mount time of the root disk; without this kludge,
      systems without a working RTC will end up in a perpetual reboot loop.
    - Set hostname at boot, for the benefit of mdadm autoassembly.
    - Allow scripts and hooks to specify OPTION=VAR, and unless VAR is set
      to something other than "n", the script will not be included.
    - Restore the framebuffer hook and script, copying KMS and other
      framebuffer drivers into the initramfs, but make them optional; you
      need to set FRAMEBUFFER=y for these to be included.
    - Add hwaddr= alias for BOOTIF= for compatibility.
    - Automatically blacklist vga16fb when vga= or video= specified on
      kernel command-line.
    - add squashfs to list of 'most' modules
    - Add vfat and nls modules to the initramfs.
    - Add Hyper-V paravirtualised device drivers to the initramfs to allow
      booting of stock images in a Hyper-V guest.
    - ppc64el: enable PowerPC NX Crypto Coprocessor
    - Add mountroot failure support, to allow meaningful messages when no
      root device can be found.
    - resume: only resume when the partition contains a resume image
    - Add new initramfs-tools-bin package containing a binary that uses
      libudev to wait for udev to create the udev device, or wait for udev
      to finish processing if we catch it in the act, and returns the
      filesystem type as already probed by udev.
    - local_device_setup: use wait-for-root if it supports the device alias
      type
    - Incorporate rzscontrol from compcache so that we can control current
      ramzswap devices.
    - Support loading compcache from the initramfs.
    - debian/control: update Vcs-* links for Ubuntu.
    - Set executable bit on resume script in local-premount, which MoM seems
      to consistently drop
    - Add support for uppercase and lowercase uuids.
    - init: Don't interpret "rootdelay" as a static sleep.
    - scripts/local: Let rootdelay determine the wait-for-root timeout.
    - Increase rootdelay to 180s on powerpc/ppc64/ppc64el
    - Support roottimeout= as the authoritative name for rootdelay= since
      the Ubuntu interpretation of rootdelay is *not* a delay and this
      causes inconsistent behavior depending on whether the kernel or an
      initramfs is interpreting it.
    - scripts/functions: by default, when setting up networking, use dhclient
      if we're asked to do DHCP explicitly, or if we otherwise are expected
      to do things automatically.
    - scripts/functions: make sure we can try to start all available and
      suitable interfaces if ip= isn't set when setting up the network, and
      exit as soon as we get an IP address.
    - scripts/functions: for configure_networking:
      - split out IPv6 options in its own cmdline parameter: ip6= ; always
        use dhclient in this case if the value set is anything other than
        'off' or 'none'. Furthermore, parse anything other than 'on', 'dhcp'
        or 'any' as the name of an interface.
      - rework the stop conditions so that we properly handle the ROUNDTTT
        loop, timing out after a short period of time and trying again
        after a short sleep.
      - add a 'done' parameter for both ip= and ip6= so that we can properly
        exit the ROUNDTTT loop once we know that either there is no work to
        do, or that we've achieved what we wanted (that is, to bring up IPv4,
        IPv6, or possibly both).
      - Do not handle ip=rarp specially (ipconfig hasn't supported it for
        some time)
      - Call dhclient in simple cases for IPv4 (this makes some small
        observable changes -- for example ip=bootp will now make a DHCP
        request too -- but nothing that seems important).
      - Do not let dhclient processes hang around past the pivot and have
        them respect the shorter timeouts ipconfig was given.
    - hook-functions, mkinitramfs, scripts/functions: support usage of dns
      after configure_networking.
    - Fix resuming a hibernate session from a swapfile
    - scripts/functions: write netplan config files to /run/netplan for
      network devices configured with configure_networking.
    - Add some autopkgtests for the network configuration processing.
    - Work out the kernel modules required to support ZFS filesystems and
      add them as necessary.
    - debian/initramfs-tools.postinst: remove orphaned old-dkms initrd files
      in /boot.
    - scripts/functions: include a new option to skip enslaved network
      devices.
    - Fix PATH to include /usr/local.
    - Add modules for nvme path components on multipath nvme.
    - Don't recommend pigz, which is in universe.
    - Suppress shellcheck SC1010 errors, returning lots of false-positives on
      use of 'done' as a word.
    - Drop usage of klibc-utils' fstype in favor of always using udev blkid.
    - Use set -a/+a around loading conf snippets, to autoexport hook
      configuration variables. This thus allows packaged hooks to configure
      each other.
    - Auto activate qeth devices on s390x hosts, when using ip= ip6= command
      lines.
    - Switch default initramfs compression to lz4, faster than the current
      default gzip.
    - Add support for creating VLANs via vlan=eth0.1:eth0 on kernel
      commandline, and as VLAN= conf.d snippet.
    - Add support for panic=-1 value
    - debian/{control,rules}: Don't run shellcheck on i386 to avoid pulling
      ghc into our minimal supported set for the pruned architecture.
    - Cherrypick upstream patch to include libgcc_s for libpthread.
    - Handle both libgcc1 and libgcc-s1 locations.
  * Dropped changes, included in Debian:
    - Patch unmkinitramfs to cat possible lz4 archives first, as lz4 is
      particular about enforcing .lz4 file extensions when operating on
      files.
    - mkinitramfs: Copy modules.builtin.bin into initramfs
  * Dropped changes, no longer needed:
    - remove Breaks on pre-bionic isc-dhcp-client.
  * src/wait-for-root.c, scripts/local: add explicit support for PARTUUID, a
    syntax we may prefer for images that might boot without an initramfs.
  * Drop manual modprobe of filesystem modules, deemed redundant upstream

initramfs-tools (0.136) unstable; urgency=medium

[ Mathieu Malaterre ]
  * [90bd459] Update to new name for kernel module therm_pm72

[ Alper Nebi Yasak ]
  * [ded7214] hook-functions: Handle dw_mmc-rockchip hidden dependency on
    rockchip-io-domain
  * [da85190] hook-functions: Include modules for Chromebook Plus display

[ Ben Hutchings ]
  * [afd2668] debian/tests/control: Mark shellcheck test as superficial
  * [9d8b690] mkinitramfs: Remove workaround for old udev versions
  * [2b55aca] mkinitramfs: Remove special case for Arm OABI ports
  * [a9e5169] mkinitramfs: Remove armhf dynamic linker hack
  * [b19b6f3] debian/rules: Suppress execution of dh_installinitramfs
  * [8330bcd] mkinitramfs: Use cp -p option for ld.so.conf* instead of -aZ
  * [15fd713] initramfs-tools(7): Change example to use copy_exec instead of cp
  * [c2d589e] Revert "mkinitramfs: check if initramfs has a shell"
  * [835d584] mkinitramfs: Copy modules.builtin.bin into initramfs
    (Closes: #948257)
  * [0012977] init: Remove special case for kernel parameter resume=UUID=...
  * [897ab77] update-initramfs: Make "-c -k all" options useful again
    (Closes: #926401)
  * [d6c6eec] init: Mount /dev with "exec" option if v86d is present
    (Closes: #940171)
  * [a9e73b5] hook-functions: Drop ext4dev from filesystem module list
  * [41d9ceb] mkinitramfs: Enable multihreaded xz compression (Closes: #942144)

[ Alexander Volkov ]
  * [e34affa] Don't require build dependency on shellcheck when nocheck profile
    is enabled

[ Johannes 'josch' Schauer ]
  * [e2ad678] hook-functions: preloaded libraries should not end up in the
    initramfs (Closes: #944929)

[ Debian Janitor ]
  * [a1e17fc] Bump debhelper from old 9 to 12.
  * [4d86d1a] Set debhelper-compat version in Build-Depends.

[ Romain Perier ]
  * [4df27e2] hook-functions: Add f2fs as base in auto_add_modules

[ Christian Göttsche ]
  * [0db5752] Do not copy SELinux context in mkinitramfs (Closes: #948365)

[ Topi Miettinen ]
  * [55afeec] Tighten permissions for /run/initramfs

initramfs-tools (0.135) unstable; urgency=medium

[ Topi Miettinen ]
  * [eb98d2e] init: /dev can be noexec and /run nodev

[ Alper Nebi Yasak ]
  * [43488a3] hook-functions: Handle spi-rockchip hidden dependency on pl330

[ Ben Hutchings ]
  * [116ce5c] autopkgtest: Only test hook and boot scripts from specific
    packages

initramfs-tools (0.134) unstable; urgency=medium

[ Ben Hutchings ]
  * [8aeae9f] hooks/resume: Disable resume when there are no suitable swap
    devices. Thanks to Trek <trek00@inbox.ru> (Closes: #916696)
  * [40f6647] hook-functions: Include all keyboard driver modules when
    MODULES=most. Thanks to Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com>
  * [797e5fe] hook-functions: Include cros_ec_spi and SPI drivers when
    MODULES=most. Thanks to Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com>
  * [f65627d] resume: Set plymouth status only if there is a suspend image
    (Closes: #928736)
  * [c31a908] hook-functions: Fix copy_file with target of "/bin"
    (Closes: #928689)
  * [8a29ef3] scripts/functions: Use "reboot -f" to reboot on panic.
    Thanks to Michael Niewöhner <linux@mniewoehner.de> (Closes: #923165)
  * [da9f53e] unmkinitramfs: Work around lz4cat filename check.
    Thanks to Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com> (Closes: #930366)
  * [cf7bb4b] initramfs-tools-core: Depend on logsave or older e2fsprogs
    (Closes: #932854)
  * [8570718] update-initramfs(8): Document -d option as "delete" instead of
    "remove"
  * [fffe514] update-initramfs(8): Update description of "-k all" option

[ Benjamin Drung ]
  * [5e94f22] autopkgtest: Check also
    /usr/share/initramfs-tools/{hooks,scripts}

[ Alper Nebi Yasak ]
  * [994d698] hook-functions: Include extcon-usbc-cros-ec when MODULES=most
  * [4e3496a] hook-functions: Include extcon drivers when MODULES=dep

[ Uwe Kleine-König ]
  * [37dcf3d] mkinitramfs: suppress warning when using bzip2 or lzma
    (Closes: #930754)

-- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>  Mon, 17 Feb 2020 17:19:14 -0800

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status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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