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initramfs-tools package

package initramfs-tools 0.99ubuntu11 [modified: usr/sbin/update-initramfs] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #974265 reported by Ken on 2012-04-05

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

This appeared while trying to run the update-manager for the 12.04 beta2.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: initramfs-tools 0.99ubuntu11 [modified: usr/sbin/update-initramfs]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.33-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.314
Date: Thu Apr 5 13:37:03 2012
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: initramfs-tools
Title: package initramfs-tools 0.99ubuntu11 [modified: usr/sbin/update-initramfs] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Ken (ken-luberts) wrote on 2012-04-05:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (655 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (491 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (51.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (50.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (3.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DuplicateSignature.txt Edit (595 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2012-04-05

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2012-04-09:

You seem to have run out of free space on your persistent system:

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-20-generic
cryptsetup: WARNING: failed to detect canonical device of overlayfs
cryptsetup: WARNING: could not determine root device from /etc/fstab
lzma: (stdout): Write error: No space left on device
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1