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Asked: 2019-07-09 21:47:47 +0800 CST

update-initramfs and linux-firmware while installing and updating softwares [duplicate]

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I'm using Kubuntu 19.04 and I've updated the KDE Desktop to version 5.16.2 I keep getting the following errors while performing a software update or installation through KDE Discover(Software center) and Konsole(Terminal). Some Background info:I increased the size of my root(/) partition earlier.

Setting up linux-firmware (1.178.2) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.0.0-20-generic
cryptsetup: WARNING: The initramfs image may not contain cryptsetup binaries 
    nor crypto modules. If that's on purpose, you may want to uninstall the 
    'cryptsetup-initramfs' package in order to disable the cryptsetup initramfs 
    integration and avoid this warning.
I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda8
I: (UUID=dc2cd463-e46e-4cbd-b14f-ed811bf6526c)
I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.0.0-20-generic with 1.
dpkg: error processing package linux-firmware (--configure):
 installed linux-firmware package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-firmware

output of df -h,df -i:


ak@ak-pc:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs           385M   12M  374M   3% /run
/dev/sda6       8.6G  5.6G  2.5G  70% /
tmpfs           1.9G  6.2M  1.9G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0       23M   23M     0 100% /snap/snapd/3646
/dev/loop1       55M   55M     0 100% /snap/core18/1049
/dev/loop3       89M   89M     0 100% /snap/core/7270
/dev/loop4       36M   36M     0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1198
/dev/loop2      266M  266M     0 100% /snap/kde-frameworks-5-core18/29
/dev/loop5       54M   54M     0 100% /snap/core18/1013
/dev/sda5       180M  156M   12M  94% /boot
/dev/sda7        11G  3.9G  6.4G  38% /home
tmpfs           385M   12K  385M   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sda3       366G  331G   36G  91% /media/ak/AC4A56F84A56BEB0
ak@ak-pc:~$ df -i
Filesystem       Inodes  IUsed    IFree IUse% Mounted on
udev             483633    581   483052    1% /dev
tmpfs            492446    920   491526    1% /run
/dev/sda6        567840 194674   373166   35% /
tmpfs            492446     11   492435    1% /dev/shm
tmpfs            492446      5   492441    1% /run/lock
tmpfs            492446     18   492428    1% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0          627    627        0  100% /snap/snapd/3646
/dev/loop1        10031  10031        0  100% /snap/core18/1049
/dev/loop3        12823  12823        0  100% /snap/core/7270
/dev/loop4        25385  25385        0  100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1198
/dev/loop2        33964  33964        0  100% /snap/kde-frameworks-5-core18/29
/dev/loop5         9877   9877        0  100% /snap/core18/1013
/dev/sda5         48768    314    48454    1% /boot
/dev/sda7        718080   8798   709282    2% /home
tmpfs            492446     34   492412    1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sda3      37240056  16439 37223617    1% /media/ak/AC4A56F84A56BEB0
software-installation kubuntu update-manager

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The reason for the error is that your /boot partition is full. That is most probably due to many linux kernels being installed. The process to fix this is as follows:

    • open a terminal and become root or use sudo
    • find list of installed kernels dpkg -l | egrep 'linux.*(image|header)' and save it someplace safe to refer to it.
    • Find your current kernel version uname -r and save it for reference
    • remove at least one combination of image and header package to free space apt-get autoremove --purge linux-headers-4.15.0-52 linux-headers-4.15.0-52-generic linux-image-4.15.0-52-generic
    • take care to not remove your current version and the latest one (look at the numbers and judge)
    • Take care not to remove all kernels
    • rebuild all initrds update-initrd -u -k all
    • clean unneeded packages apt-get autoremove --purge

    That should fix your issue

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