[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space

[Alan Burgess]

Hi Gordon,

I've had this same issue for many months and have come to the conclusion 
that there is no expertise within Ubuntu or if there is then no one who 
is prepared to fix it and get it out to the community.

I have reluctantly had to revert 42 machines back to Windows. Windows 10 
now which is miles better than XP and until Ubuntu has a professional 
organisation behind it.

I'm leaving Ubuntu 14.04 on this one unit just to see it this issue ever 
gets fixed.

Its been suggested we give Fedora a go and ditch any ideas of ever using 
Ubuntu.

If you have any experience (good or bad) of Fedora then please share.

Many thanks

Alan


On 21/07/16 17:07, Gordon wrote:
> I'm still having this issue on Ubuntu Studio lowlatency kernel updates
> using the following cmds:
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get autoremove
> sudo apt-get autoclean
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Then it fails, seems to recover, not entirely convinced :(
>
> Is there a way to safely increase the boot partion ?
>
> Using an SSD drive...
>
> df -h
> Filesystem                              Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> udev                                    2.9G   12K  2.9G   1% /dev
> tmpfs                                   577M  1.4M  576M   1% /run
> /dev/dm-0                               214G  137G   67G  68% /
> none                                    4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> none                                    5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
> none                                    2.9G  100K  2.9G   1% /run/shm
> none                                    100M   36K  100M   1% /run/user
> /dev/sda1                               236M  227M     0 100% /boot
>
>
> Please help... this always occurs and has been for what seems months.
>
> Thanks
>
> ** Attachment added: "ScreenShot of lowlatency - low disk space"
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/798414/+attachment/4704773/+files/UbuntuStudio_Low_disk_space_on_dist-upgrade_after_autoremove_autoclean-07212016-085954.png
>

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Title:
  update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't
  enough  free space

Status in initramfs-tools:
  Confirmed
Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

  When generating a new initramfs there is no check for available free
  space, subsequently its possible for update-initramfs to fail due to a
  lack of free space.  This is resulting in package installation
  failures for initramfs-tools.  For example:

  Setting up initramfs-tools (0.98.8ubuntu3) ...
  update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
  Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic

  gzip: stdout: No space left on device
  E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
  update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
  dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

  WORKAROUND:

  Remove unused kernels using computer janitor (not in repositories for
  14.04 or later) or manually free space on your partition containing
  the /boot file system.

  See instructions here
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/RemoveOldKernels

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