[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't enough free space--or provide an automatic tool for removal of old files

[Mathew Hodson]

A better fix for this issue is available in Bionic and later and also
backported to Xenial with bug 1675079.

unattended-upgrades and update-manager will now remove unused kernel
packages when there are other updates to be installed.

I'm closing this initramfs-tools task since a fix specifically for this
initramfs-tools package isn't needed now.

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
   Status: Fix Released => Won't Fix

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: BlaWhickte (blawhickte) => (unassigned)

** No longer affects: dpkg (Ubuntu)

** No longer affects: ubuntu

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[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't enough free space--or provide an automatic tool for removal of old files

[Mathew Hodson]

** Project changed: initramfs-tools => ubuntu

** No longer affects: ubuntu

** Project changed: software-center => ubuntu

** No longer affects: ubuntu

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[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't enough free space--or provide an automatic tool for removal of old files

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: ubuntu
   Status: New => Confirmed

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Re: [Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't enough free space--or provide an automatic tool for removal of old files

[BlaWhickte]

THANKS FOR YOUR REPLIED. IT WAS FIXED

Jarno Suni <798...@bugs.launchpad.net> 于2019年1月1日周二 下午8:39写道：

> cwdruf, luckily, there are some ways.
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> Title:
>   update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when
>   there isn't enough  free space--or provide an automatic tool for
>   removal of old files
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> Status in initramfs-tools:
>   New
> Status in Ubuntu Software Center:
>   Invalid
> Status in Ubuntu:
>   Fix Released
> Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu:
>   Invalid
> Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
>   Fix Released
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> Bug description:
>   Binary package hint: initramfs-tools
>
>   When installing a kernel, /boot may become full during execution of
>   post-installation script typically when update-initramfs is creating
>   or updating an initrd.img file. This is resulting in kernel
>   installation error.  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
>
>   Ideal behavior:
>
>   Give a more helpful error message when this unfortunate situation
>   occurs so that user can fix the broken system and keep it going.
>
>   Workaround:
>
>   As the bug reporting system forwards user to this bug report, such
> instructions can be given here:
>   https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RemoveOldKernels
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[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't enough free space--or provide an automatic tool for removal of old files

[Jarno Suni]

cwdruf, luckily, there are some ways.

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[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't enough free space--or provide an automatic tool for removal of old files

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** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: Julio Decima (j10a) => BlaWhickte (blawhickte)

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[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't enough free space--or provide an automatic tool for removal of old files

[Julio Decima]

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: Colin Underhill (daisybank) => Julio Decima (j10a)

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[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't enough free space--or provide an automatic tool for removal of old files

[C W]

The default boot partition size in Ubuntu 16 is way too small so having
some way to remove the oldest kernel is required I think. Its very hard
to change it once the disk is in use.

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[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't enough free space--or provide an automatic tool for removal of old files

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** Also affects: initramfs-tools
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

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[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't enough free space--or provide an automatic tool for removal of old files

[tim fiedler]

** Project changed: initramfs-tools => ubuntu

** Changed in: ubuntu
 Assignee: Raul  Benalcazar (raulbenalcazar24) => tim fiedler 
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[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't enough free space--or provide an automatic tool for removal of old files

[José António da Silva tavares]

** Changed in: initramfs-tools
   Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't enough free space--or provide an automatic tool for removal of old files

[Jarno Suni]

Tex, the command you used failed because of Bug #1678187. However it
succeeded to purge many kernels and related packages. But package linux-
image-extra-4.13.0-36-generic was not successfully purged technically.
What does command 'dpkg -l linux-image-extra-4.13.0-36-generic' print?
Anyway, you can now purge the package by 'sudo dpkg --purge linux-image-
extra-4.13.0-36-generic', right?

I suppose your original command purged too many packages, as it removed
the linux-generic-hwe-16.04 package. You may reinstall it by 'sudo apt-
get install --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-16.04', if you want
to continue to get newer kernels via updates.
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack#Ubuntu_16.04_LTS_-
_Xenial_Xerus)

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[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't enough free space--or provide an automatic tool for removal of old files

[Tex Arcana]

I just ran into this bug, tried a suggestion from here
(https://askubuntu.com/questions/89710/how-do-i-free-up-more-space-in-
boot) which resulted in multiple errors, and me being sent here.

It seems to me that this should be taken care of automatically by the
kernel with the upgrading process.



Terminal output of the above suggested method:



XX@XXX-System-Product-NameX-XXX:~$ uname -r
4.15.0-29-generic
XX@XXX-System-Product-NameXX-XXX:~$ dpkg -l 
linux-{image,headers}-"[0-9]*" | awk '/^ii/{ print $2}' | grep -v -e `uname -r 
| cut -f1,2 -d"-"` | grep -e '[0-9]'
linux-headers-4.13.0-36
linux-headers-4.13.0-36-generic
linux-headers-4.13.0-38
linux-headers-4.13.0-38-generic
linux-headers-4.13.0-39
linux-headers-4.13.0-39-generic
linux-headers-4.13.0-45
linux-headers-4.13.0-45-generic
linux-headers-4.15.0-24
linux-headers-4.15.0-24-generic
linux-headers-4.15.0-30
linux-headers-4.15.0-30-generic
linux-image-4.13.0-36-generic
linux-image-4.13.0-38-generic
linux-image-4.13.0-39-generic
linux-image-4.13.0-45-generic
linux-image-4.15.0-24-generic
linux-image-4.15.0-30-generic
X@X-System-Product-Name-XXX:~$ dpkg -l 
linux-{image,headers}-"[0-9]*" | awk '/^ii/{ print $2}' | grep -v -e `uname -r 
| cut -f1,2 -d"-"` | grep -e '[0-9]' | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge
[sudo] password for XXX: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  amd64-microcode intel-microcode iucode-tool libllvm5.0 libllvm5.0:i386
  linux-modules-4.15.0-24-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  linux-generic-hwe-16.04* linux-headers-4.13.0-36*
  linux-headers-4.13.0-36-generic* linux-headers-4.13.0-38*
  linux-headers-4.13.0-38-generic* linux-headers-4.13.0-39*
  linux-headers-4.13.0-39-generic* linux-headers-4.13.0-45*
  linux-headers-4.13.0-45-generic* linux-headers-4.15.0-24*
  linux-headers-4.15.0-24-generic* linux-headers-4.15.0-30*
  linux-headers-4.15.0-30-generic* linux-headers-generic-hwe-16.04*
  linux-image-4.13.0-36-generic* linux-image-4.13.0-38-generic*
  linux-image-4.13.0-39-generic* linux-image-4.13.0-45-generic*
  linux-image-4.15.0-24-generic* linux-image-4.15.0-30-generic*
  linux-image-extra-4.13.0-36-generic* linux-image-extra-4.13.0-38-generic*
  linux-image-extra-4.13.0-39-generic* linux-image-extra-4.13.0-45-generic*
  linux-image-generic-hwe-16.04* linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-24-generic*
  linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-30-generic*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 27 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,830 MB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 424923 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-generic-hwe-16.04 (4.15.0.30.52) ...
Removing linux-headers-4.13.0-36-generic (4.13.0-36.40~16.04.1) ...
Removing linux-headers-4.13.0-36 (4.13.0-36.40~16.04.1) ...
Removing linux-headers-4.13.0-38-generic (4.13.0-38.43~16.04.1) ...
Removing linux-headers-4.13.0-38 (4.13.0-38.43~16.04.1) ...
Removing linux-headers-4.13.0-39-generic (4.13.0-39.44~16.04.1) ...
Removing linux-headers-4.13.0-39 (4.13.0-39.44~16.04.1) ...
Removing linux-headers-4.13.0-45-generic (4.13.0-45.50~16.04.1) ...
Removing linux-headers-4.13.0-45 (4.13.0-45.50~16.04.1) ...
Removing linux-headers-4.15.0-24-generic (4.15.0-24.26~16.04.1) ...
Removing linux-headers-4.15.0-24 (4.15.0-24.26~16.04.1) ...
Removing linux-headers-generic-hwe-16.04 (4.15.0.30.52) ...
Removing linux-headers-4.15.0-30-generic (4.15.0-30.32~16.04.1) ...
Removing linux-headers-4.15.0-30 (4.15.0-30.32~16.04.1) ...
Removing linux-image-extra-4.13.0-36-generic (4.13.0-36.40~16.04.1) ...
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal 4.13.0-36-generic 
/boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-36-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 4.13.0-36-generic 
/boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-36-generic
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-36-generic

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-36-generic with 1.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-extra-4.13.0-36-generic (--purge):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Removing linux-image-4.13.0-36-generic (4.13.0-36.40~16.04.1) ...
Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d .
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools 4.13.0-36-generic 
/boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-36-generic
update-initramfs: Deleting /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-36-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub 4.13.0-36-generic 
/boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-36-generic
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: 

[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't enough free space--or provide an automatic tool for removal of old files

[Tex Arcana]

** Summary changed:

- update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't 
enough  free space
+ update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't 
enough  free space--or provide an automatic tool for removal of old files

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

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** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Underhill (daisybank)

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

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** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: Deon Joubert (02deon-j) => (unassigned)

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

[M G]

oh, you the correct first command is :
/boot$[sudo] rm -rf *4.13.0-36* 
(or older ones, depending on what you have **really, don't delete the ones you 
use or need**)

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

[M G]

check /boot to see what are your old kernels that you're not necessarily
using. the system keeps two latest kernels. so if you're upgrading your
kernel to 4.13.0-38, you don't need 4.13.0-36 or older anymore( unless
you want a specific kernel for testing or something ), so you can delete
em.

/boot$[sudo] rm -rf *4.13.0-36 (or older ones, depending on what you
have **don't delete the ones you use or need**)

after that:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get auto remove

these should do it.

please be careful with rm -rf(it can be pretty devastating if you type
wrong things in there)

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

[Indraneel Basu Majumdar]

this is still too difficult for a newbie to linux with no programming
expertise to understand and apply: can it be made simpler by version as
to what commands do we need to execute and what steps do we need to
take. Thank you for your understanding

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

[Jarno Suni]

M G, which method you used?

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

[M G]

I just cleaned up my /boot (old kernels and stuff) and Bng! worked
like a charm.

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

[Raul Benalcazar]

** Changed in: initramfs-tools
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Raul  Benalcazar (raulbenalcazar24)

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

[Jarno Suni]

natalieaoneal, in Artful purge-old-kernels simply runs "sudo apt-get
autoremove". See Bug #1686138

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

[liz Phillips]

Many thanks!
Liz

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

Status in initramfs-tools:
  Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu Software Center:
  Invalid
Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

  When installing a kernel, /boot may become full during execution of
  post-installation script typically when update-initramfs is creating
  or updating an initrd.img file. This is resulting in kernel
  installation error.  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

  Ideal behavior:

  Give a more helpful error message when this unfortunate situation
  occurs so that user can fix the broken system and keep it going.

  Workaround:

  As the bug reporting system forwards user to this bug report, such
instructions can be given here:
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RemoveOldKernels

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

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

[Thomas Schweikle]

The boot space problem is not resolved by purge-old-kernels, since this
command does not remove old initrd from kernels not installed any more.
purge-old-kernels shall remove any initrd from kernels it removes!

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

[natalieaoneal]

Added note: sudo apt install byobu;sudo purge-old-kernels
seems to be resolving the /boot space issue.

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

[natalieaoneal]

/boot was full, so I moved one file 'initrd.img-4.10.0-27-generic' from
/boot to /tmp and ran:

sudo apt autoremove

This prompted the crash that I reported.

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

[Scott Alan Barker]

UBUNTU I DON'T use that system anymore 4 or 5 years ago I'M TIRED of having 
headaches. Keep your BUGZILLA  & WORMS with you. HaHa   On Wednesday, 
December 27, 2017, 9:09:59 AM EST, a.francesc...@gmail.com 
<798...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:  
 
 ** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
      Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Status in initramfs-tools:
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Status in Ubuntu Software Center:
  Invalid
Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu:
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Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

  When installing a kernel, /boot may become full during execution of
  post-installation script typically when update-initramfs is creating
  or updating an initrd.img file. This is resulting in kernel
  installation error.  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

  Ideal behavior:

  Give a more helpful error message when this unfortunate situation
  occurs so that user can fix the broken system and keep it going.

  Workaround:

  As the bug reporting system forwards user to this bug report, such 
instructions can be given here:
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RemoveOldKernels

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

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** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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

[Colin Watson]

** Changed in: initramfs-tools
   Status: Opinion => Confirmed

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

[LETHRITZAKIS LEONIDAS]

** Changed in: initramfs-tools
   Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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

[Jarno Suni]

Steve Holton, maybe you are using Ubuntu 14.04 and have some manually installed 
kernels, see Bug #1089195.
Do updated instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RemoveOldKernels 
help to fix your system? (I suggest trying linux-purge, which I have written.)

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

[Timo Collinger]

I am not up-to high level changes/updates , it's "Beyond" my
capabilities.

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

[Steve Holton]

IMPACT:

Some systems report the problem detected (requesting a bug report andtriggering 
a visit to this page)  even when /boot has available free space:
 
sholton@sholton-VirtualBox:~$ df -H /boot
Filesystem  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1   487M  127M  330M  28% /boot

sholton@sholton-VirtualBox:~$ sudo apt autoremove --purge
[sudo] password for sholton: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Is there a related bug which indicates a system problem even when the
original problem has been corrected?

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

[Said Bakr]

The problem message stated that /boot has no enough free space and by
checking the partition with Disk Usage Analyzer it states that free
space is 6.6 MB only.

After using sudo apt-get autoremove --purge as suugested in
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RemoveOldKernels , it becomes 137.9 MB
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[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't enough free space

[Deon Joubert]

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: lizehao (lllwonder) => Deon Joubert (02deon-j)

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

[Thomas Schweikle]

Ubuntu keeps to many old kernel-images and initrd within /boot. Space is
exausted and it fails to delete old unused kernels before creating a new
initrd failing building an initrd for the newly installed kernel.

A workaround is to delete all old unused kernels and then try it again.
It will succeed.

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

[Karoly Meszaros]

** Project changed: update-manager => software-center

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

[Jarno Suni]

Another example where /boot gets full even before running update-initramfs:
https://askubuntu.com/q/946875/21005

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

[Jarno Suni]

/boot may become full already in unpacking stage when installing a new kernel 
by dpkg. I think the error message could be more helpful in that case, too. The 
following video demonstrates such a case. It also demonstrates how the 
aforementioned linux-purge script can be used to fix system
https://youtu.be/gozw6A3qwCY

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

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** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
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[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't enough free space

[Jarno Suni]

Similarly, it would be great, if unattended-upgrade, apt and whatnot
package tool software could predict that the requested install will not
fit in system and act accordingly. Then the error in post-installation
script would not happen then. The size could be hard to know in general
case. If I have understood correctly, Software Updater uses information
about older kernels as basis for calculating such a limit.

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

[Jarno Suni]

Marked as invalid against Software Updater (i.e. update-manager) since
there is a separate report for it: Bug #1460396

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

[Jarno Suni]

I think the patch presented at 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1678187/comments/8
might give more helpful error message, since it avoids filling /boot as long as 
possible, thus the system is unlikely to run out of space while running 
mkinitramfs, but finds out, if the system lacks free space, and if it does, it 
tells the URL of the documentation page concerning removing old kernels.

P.S. The URL could be https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LowDiskOnBoot
alternatively. (Luke W Faraone uses that in his merge proposal, and it
redirects to the same document currently.)

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

[Steve Langasek]

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
   Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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

[Tikshala]

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
   Status: In Progress => Incomplete

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
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Re: [Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error message when there isn't enough free space

[Bill Meier]

I still think a simpler solution, one that all users, novice or newbie, 
could use is a GUI that lists the pertinent information and allows 
deletion of any older and unused kernels. This may offend some purists, 
but to me, the idea is to make linux easy to use and maintain for those 
that finally make the break from MicroSoft..


On 07/12/2017 02:14 PM, Jason Mast wrote:
> While it is helpful for new users to have to google shell commands and
> identify solutions to problems, this simply occurs too often. The
> solution is the same every time. It is repetitive and annoying,
>
> the script could store the new and old information in different
> locations to avoid the lack of space, the boot could be made larger by
> default, options could be presented to the user rather than simply
> failing, backup information for old kernals could be stored elsewhere
> (and only the most recent moved to boot for compatibility) ... etc.
>
> a sample dialog would be
> "there is not enough space for the boot information, there are too many items 
> being retained in /boot, but it is strongly suggested that you maintain some 
> backup kernals as updates can cause issues with new or old hardware. Please 
> choose the number of old backups to maintain and the frequency with which 
> they should be replaced"
> then have a dialog that lists options like (daily weekly monthly yearly and 
> no backups) and an option to store them tarred in another location that does 
> not fill up ... also it should list the size of the individual groups of 
> files (by date) ... and it should explain that this is a kernal backup not a 
> file backup
>
> also boot should be bigger
>
> and there should be a semipermanent configuration change listed on the
> forum rather than the delete old kernals solution - which is just a
> bandaid in that you will just have to repeatedly do it, because
> sometimes i just want to turn the thing on and play minecraft (and my
> timesink of choice is not system administration)
>
> Anyway,the point of "automatic updates" is they happen automatically,
> and you dont have to mess with them, this bug forces you to mess with
> them
>

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

[Jason Mast]

While it is helpful for new users to have to google shell commands and
identify solutions to problems, this simply occurs too often. The
solution is the same every time. It is repetitive and annoying,

the script could store the new and old information in different
locations to avoid the lack of space, the boot could be made larger by
default, options could be presented to the user rather than simply
failing, backup information for old kernals could be stored elsewhere
(and only the most recent moved to boot for compatibility) ... etc.

a sample dialog would be 
"there is not enough space for the boot information, there are too many items 
being retained in /boot, but it is strongly suggested that you maintain some 
backup kernals as updates can cause issues with new or old hardware. Please 
choose the number of old backups to maintain and the frequency with which they 
should be replaced"
then have a dialog that lists options like (daily weekly monthly yearly and no 
backups) and an option to store them tarred in another location that does not 
fill up ... also it should list the size of the individual groups of files (by 
date) ... and it should explain that this is a kernal backup not a file backup

also boot should be bigger

and there should be a semipermanent configuration change listed on the
forum rather than the delete old kernals solution - which is just a
bandaid in that you will just have to repeatedly do it, because
sometimes i just want to turn the thing on and play minecraft (and my
timesink of choice is not system administration)

Anyway,the point of "automatic updates" is they happen automatically,
and you dont have to mess with them, this bug forces you to mess with
them

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

[Sebastian Nohn]

dpkg -l linux-{image,headers}-* | awk '/^ii/{print $2}' | egrep
'[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' | grep -v $(uname -r | cut -d- -f-2) | xargs
sudo apt-get -y purge

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

[Vonschutter]

This is a critical error as it will result in kernel security updates
not being applied. Less than 1% of users are able to resolve this issue
on their own and will likely continue to operate unprotected.

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

[rocky220]

yes I relize now my second partition was no large enough, thanks 
  Tibor

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