4+ years and still not fixed. And no, to the many people who have listed how to "fix" it via apt commands, that is not a fix, that is a kludge. APT (in its myriad forms) is a package manager. That means these kernel packages should be managed. So here are the facts.
1: Ubuntu now suggests for partitioning a tiny /boot partition. 2: Ubuntu now pushes out several minor kernel updates per month. 3: Those kernel updates do not clean up after themselves. Add those three together and it means every Ubuntu user will, I stress WILL, run into this problem in short order. This is a core package, it is a managed package, this problem should be MANAGED, not kludged. But all I see in going back through the history of this bug is two things which should not be happening. 1: The bug being assigned out to someone only to be assigned to nobody right after it. 2: People disparaging others for wanting the issue resolved. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to initramfs-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798414 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: Triaged 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/initramfs-tools/+bug/798414/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
