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Fluffy
Asked: 2015-02-03 02:13:47 +0800 CST

Can't install/remove packages - update-initramfs with little space on /boot

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When I try to remove any package, I get 

(Reading database ... 604878 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing bootchart (0.90.2-8ubuntu2) ...
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update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-32-generic
grep: /boot/config-3.13.0-32-generic: No such file or directory
W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no arrays.

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-32-generic with 1.
dpkg: error processing package bootchart (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1

/boot partition has 263 MB of space and I've removed some old kernel files with rm -f /boot/*3.13.0-3* to free space before. I don't think I've purged linux-kernel packages back then.

Either way now I can't even use the answer from here - when I try to apt-get purge linux-image-3.11.0-20-generic I still run into the issue with with initramfs.

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1 Answers

  1. This was an issue with bootchart /var/lib/dpkg/info/bootchart.postrm script. I edited it to remove the update-initramfs command, and then I was able to remove bootchart and old linux-image packages normally, which freed up a lot of space in /boot.

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