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  1. Bug #1991477
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1991477

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: package linux-image-5.15.0-48-generic 5.15.0-48.54 failed to install/upgrade: run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1

The error in your log is:

Processing triggers for linux-image-5.15.0-48-generic (5.15.0-48.54) ...
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-48-generic
cpio: write error: No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 2
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-48-generic with 1.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1

This is not a bug in initramfs-tools, per se; initramfs-tools can't make your root partition larger than it is. And you do not have a separate /boot partition, so this is not a bug of an installer setting up /boot to be an inappropriate size. The only thing that can be done in this circumstance is for you to free up some space on your root partition and try to resume the upgrade with 'apt -f install'.

Were you running apt dist-upgrade manually to go from focal to jammy, or were you using do-release-upgrade, the recommended tool? The release upgrader includes some checks to ensure sufficient free space before committing to the upgrade, so we would want to know if those are inadequate.