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package initramfs-tools 0.136ubuntu6.6 failed to install/upgrade: installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

Bug #1958503 reported by Marius Gedminas on 2022-01-20

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

Nothing very interesting here, the /boot partition on this server is very small (240M) and the upgrade ran out of space while generating an initramfs image.

I was able to recover by removing the oldest linux-image package.

I was surprised that do-release-upgrade didn't check whether there will be enough free space in /boot beforehand.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: initramfs-tools 0.136ubuntu6.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-166.174-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-166-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.21
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
Date: Thu Jan 20 09:41:08 2022
ErrorMessage: installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
PackageArchitecture: all
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.8, Python 3.8.10, python3-minimal, 3.8.2-0ubuntu2
PythonDetails: /home/mgedmin/bin/python, Python 3.8.10, unpackaged
RelatedPackageVersions:
dpkg 1.19.7ubuntu3
apt 2.0.6
SourcePackage: initramfs-tools
Title: package initramfs-tools 0.136ubuntu6.6 failed to install/upgrade: installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2022-01-20 (0 days ago)

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Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote on 2022-01-20:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (27.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (545 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (256.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (92.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (123.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DuplicateSignature.txt Edit (497 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (829 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2022-06-23

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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.