Ubuntu
initramfs-tools package

  1. Bug #798414
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 798414

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Redoubts (redoubts) wrote : Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space

@Andy, #10
I had a very similar problem, and your solution worked for me. I do autoremove & autoclean somewhat frequently, and yet when I tried apt-get remove linux-<TAB>, I found the following on my system:

linux-firmware linux-image-3.5.0-23-generic
linux-generic linux-image-3.5.0-24-generic
linux-headers-3.5.0-23 linux-image-3.5.0-25-generic
linux-headers-3.5.0-23-generic linux-image-3.5.0-26-generic
linux-headers-3.5.0-24 linux-image-extra-3.5.0-21-generic
linux-headers-3.5.0-24-generic linux-image-extra-3.5.0-22-generic
linux-headers-3.5.0-25 linux-image-extra-3.5.0-23-generic
linux-headers-3.5.0-25-generic linux-image-extra-3.5.0-24-generic
linux-headers-3.5.0-26 linux-image-extra-3.5.0-25-generic
linux-headers-3.5.0-26-generic linux-image-extra-3.5.0-26-generic
linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
linux-image-3.5.0-21-generic linux-libc-dev
linux-image-3.5.0-22-generic linux-sound-base

as well as 3.5.0-17 (but nothing in between that and -23), which I removed to make space.