[Bug 1064629] Re: Attempting upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10, could not install initramfs-tools

[Brian Murray]

You seem to have run out of free space:

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...^M
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-31-generic^M
cryptsetup: WARNING: failed to detect canonical device of /dev/sda3^M
^M
gzip: stdout: No space left on device^M 
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1^M
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-31-generic with 1.^M
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):^M
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1^M

>From what I can tell it looks like you have a separate boot partition
and this seems to be full.  I'd remove some older kernels and then
continue the upgrade.

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Title:
  Attempting upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10, could not install initramfs-
  tools

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  1.Version:
  Running:
  Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
  Release:        12.04

  2.Package info causing problem:
  initramfs-tools:
    Installed: 0.99ubuntu13
    Candidate: 0.99ubuntu13
    Version table:
   *** 0.99ubuntu13 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  3.Expected result:
  A clean upgrade.

  4. Observed result:
  An error popped up saying:
  Could not install 'initramfs-tools'
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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