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initramfs-tools package

package linux-firmware 1.187.17 failed to install/upgrade: installed linux-firmware package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

Bug #1945815 reported by Mihai Cicioc on 2021-10-01

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

i ran the following commands in terminal:
$ sudo apt update
Fetched 870 kB in 3s (344 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.

$ sudo apt upgrade
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.

so it looks like everything was ok.
but then a pop up appeared to "send report to canonical"

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: linux-firmware 1.187.17
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-37.41~20.04.2-generic 5.11.22
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-37-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.20
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC1: gdm 1921 F.... pulseaudio
mihai 7654 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC0: gdm 1921 F.... pulseaudio
mihai 7654 F.... pulseaudio
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
Date: Fri Oct 1 17:45:52 2021
Dependencies:

ErrorMessage: installed linux-firmware package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=bf1a75bb-adef-4754-9fff-9f27a46732d6
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-11-01 (334 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS 15 7590
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcFB: 0 i915drmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.11.0-37-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: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.18, python-is-python2, 2.7.17-4
RelatedPackageVersions: grub-pc 2.04-1ubuntu26.13
SourcePackage: initramfs-tools
Title: package linux-firmware 1.187.17 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: 07/03/2020
dmi.bios.release: 1.8
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.8.1
dmi.board.name: 0VYV0G
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.8.1:bd07/03/2020:br1.8:svnDellInc.:pnXPS157590:pvr:sku0905:rvnDellInc.:rn0VYV0G:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.family: XPS
dmi.product.name: XPS 15 7590
dmi.product.sku: 0905
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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Mihai Cicioc (mihaicicioc) wrote on 2021-10-01:

AlsaInfo.txt Edit (47.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
AptOrdering.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CRDA.txt Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (94.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (772 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (109.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (3.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (8.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IwConfig.txt Edit (795 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (76.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci-vt.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (1013 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb-t.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb-v.txt Edit (105.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (17.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (12.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (12.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RfKill.txt Edit (112 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (313.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
WifiSyslog.txt Edit (137.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
acpidump.txt Edit (1.7 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.