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initramfs-tools package

  1. Bug #1647689
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1647689

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote : Re: package linux-image-4.4.0-53-generic 4.4.0-53.74 failed to install/upgrade: run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The relevant dpkg terminal log says:

cp: error reading '/sbin/e2fsck': Input/output error

dmesg shows:

[39600.144088] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[39600.144097] ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x24
[39600.144103] ata3.00: failed command: READ DMA
[39600.144114] ata3.00: cmd c8/00:00:80:fe:b1/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 dma 131072 in
                        res 51/40:00:75:ff:b1/00:00:00:00:00/e1 Emask 0x9 (media error)
[39600.144120] ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[39600.144124] ata3.00: error: { UNC }
[39600.255501] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[39600.255532] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[39600.255541] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [descriptor]
[39600.255547] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
[39600.255554] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 01 b1 fe 80 00 01 00 00
[39600.255560] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 28442485

So generating the initramfs fails because of your device /dev/sda having (hardware) problems. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.