[Bug 1964794] Re: Faulty linux-firmware upgrade

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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1964814 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1964814

I have the same issue on update of 22.04 today.

sudo apt install --reinstall linux-firmware
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  linux-firmware
1 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/238 MB of archives.
After this operation, 24.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 243441 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-firmware_20220314.gitcd01f857-0ubuntu1_all.deb ...
Unpacking linux-firmware (20220314.gitcd01f857-0ubuntu1) over (20220302.gitee0667aa-0ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware_20220314.gitcd01f857-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
 unable to open '/lib/firmware/ath11k/WCN6855/hw2.0/regdb.bin.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
No apport report written because the error message indicates an issue on the local system
                                                                                         update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-22-generic
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-18-generic
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware_20220314.gitcd01f857-0ubuntu1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Cheers Spart

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Title:
  Faulty linux-firmware upgrade

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Can't upgrade the package:

  Préparation du dépaquetage de .../linux-firmware_20220314.gitcd01f857-0ubuntu1_all.deb ...
  Dépaquetage de linux-firmware (20220314.gitcd01f857-0ubuntu1) sur (20220302.gitee0667aa-0ubuntu1) ...
  dpkg: erreur de traitement de l'archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware_20220314.gitcd01f857-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack) :
   impossible d'ouvrir « /lib/firmware/ath11k/WCN6855/hw2.0/regdb.bin.dpkg-new »: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
  Aucun rapport « apport » n'a été créé car le message d'erreur rapporte un problème sur le système local
                                                                                                         update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-22-generic
  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-18-generic
  Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
   /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware_20220314.gitcd01f857-0ubuntu1_all.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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