package linux-headers-5.11.0-34-generic (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: unable to open '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.11.0-34-generic/scripts/mod/empty.dwo.dpkg-new': Operation not permitted

[Curtis Schroeder]

Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release: 20.04

\linux-headers-5.11.0-34-generic:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 5.11.0-34.36~20.04.1
  Version table:
     5.11.0-34.36~20.04.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages

Install failed during latest kernel update.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: linux-headers-5.11.0-34-generic (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-27.29~20.04.1-generic 5.11.22
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.18
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
Date: Wed Sep 8 20:26:11 2021
DuplicateSignature:
 package:linux-headers-5.11.0-34-generic:(not installed)
 Unpacking linux-hwe-5.11-headers-5.11.0-34 (5.11.0-34.36~20.04.1) ...
 dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-26WFDo/10-linux-hwe-5.11-headers-5.11.0-34_5.11.0-34.36~20.04.1_all.deb (--unpack):
  unable to create new file '/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-hwe-5.11-headers-5.11.0-34.list-new': Operation not permitted
ErrorMessage: unable to open '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.11.0-34-generic/scripts/mod/empty.dwo.dpkg-new': Operation not permitted
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-02-21 (199 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210209.1)
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.8, Python 3.8.10, python3-minimal, 3.8.2-0ubuntu2
PythonDetails: N/A
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.19.7ubuntu3
 apt 2.0.6
SourcePackage: linux-hwe-5.11
Title: package linux-headers-5.11.0-34-generic (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: unable to open '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.11.0-34-generic/scripts/mod/empty.dwo.dpkg-new': Operation not permitted
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Curtis Schroeder (publicpanther)]

This is with the NVIDIA 460 driver. At present, I can't successfully switch to the 470 driver, because it tries to use the 5.11.0-34.36 kernel files as part of the install.

[Curtis Schroeder (publicpanther)]

$ sudo apt --fix-broken install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-5.11.0-34-generic linux-hwe-5.11-headers-5.11.0-34
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-5.11.0-34-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
  linux-hwe-5.11-headers-5.11.0-34
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
57 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/13.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 90.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up libgcrypt20:amd64 (1.8.5-5ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up libsystemd0:amd64 (245.4-4ubuntu3.13) ...
Setting up libgcrypt20:i386 (1.8.5-5ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up systemd-timesyncd (245.4-4ubuntu3.13) ...
Setting up systemd (245.4-4ubuntu3.13) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/dhcp/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/resolved
...
(Reading database ... 263621 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-hwe-5.11-headers-5.11.0-34_5.11.0-34.36~20.04.1_al
l.deb ...
Unpacking linux-hwe-5.11-headers-5.11.0-34 (5.11.0-34.36~20.04.1) over (5.11.0-3
4.36~20.04.1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../linux-headers-5.11.0-34-generic_5.11.0-34.36~20.04.1_amd
64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-headers-5.11.0-34-generic (5.11.0-34.36~20.04.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-5.11.0-34-g
eneric_5.11.0-34.36~20.04.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 unable to open '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.11.0-34-generic/scripts/mod/empty.dwo.
dpkg-new': Operation not permitted
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-5.11.0-34-generic_5.11.0-34.36~20.04.1_am
d64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.