Comment 59 for bug 798414

Hello Alan Burgess, my name is David. The easiest way that I have found to
deal with this problem is to go into your Terminal and type in the
following in this order (I'll try to be as specific as possible).
    sudo apt-get autoclean (that's exactly how it should look, then press
enter), next...
    sudo apt-get autoremove (then enter), again...
    sudo apt-get clean (enter)

Do this every time before you attempt to update your computer. It may be a
bit of a pain, but it'll get you to where you need to be until someone
comes up with a permanent fix or another long term supported version comes
out again. Try this and let me know how it works for you. Good luck.
    P.S., if you don't know what the terminal is, go into your dash and
simply type in the search window... "terminal", and that should come up
with what's known as the terminal emulator. Click on it and follow the
above instructions.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Alan Burgess <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Hello Casaba,
>
> Could you provide detailed instructions on how to resolve this issue
> please.
>
> Also when will this bug be resolved?
>
> Thanks
>
> Alan
>
>
>
> On 12/08/15 12:10, Csaba wrote:
> > ** Project changed: null-and-void => ubuntu
> >
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798414
>
> Title:
> update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't
> enough free space
>
> Status in initramfs-tools:
> Confirmed
> Status in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: initramfs-tools
>
> When generating a new initramfs there is no check for available free
> space, subsequently its possible for update-initramfs to fail due to a
> lack of free space. This is resulting in package installation
> failures for initramfs-tools. For example:
>
> Setting up initramfs-tools (0.98.8ubuntu3) ...
> update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
> Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
>
> gzip: stdout: No space left on device
> E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
> update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
> dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
> status 1
>
> WORKAROUND:
>
> Remove unused kernels using computer janitor or manually free space on
> your partition containing the /boot file system.
>
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