I just ran into this problem during a standard update. It seems very similar but I thought I would post it here. My system is running within an LPAR with no z/VM. Below are the messages I receive.
sudo apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Setting up linux-image-4.15.0-50-generic (4.15.0-50.54) ... Setting up initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3.8) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Setting up linux-firmware (1.173.6) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-50-generic Using config file '/etc/zipl.conf' Run /lib/s390-tools/zipl_helper.device-mapper /boot Error: Unsupported setup: Directory '/boot' is located on a multi-target device-mapper device Error: Script could not determine target parameters run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//zz-zipl exited with return code 1 dpkg: error processing package linux-firmware (--configure): installed linux-firmware package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for linux-image-4.15.0-50-generic (4.15.0-50.54) ... /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-50-generic Error: Unsupported setup: Directory '/boot' is located on a multi-target device-mapper device Error: Script could not determine target parameters Using config file '/etc/zipl.conf' Run /lib/s390-tools/zipl_helper.device-mapper /boot run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//zz-zipl exited with return code 1 run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1 dpkg: error processing package linux-image-4.15.0-50-generic (--configure): installed linux-image-4.15.0-50-generic package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3.8) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-50-generic Using config file '/etc/zipl.conf' Run /lib/s390-tools/zipl_helper.device-mapper /boot Error: Unsupported setup: Directory '/boot' is located on a multi-target device-mapper device Error: Script could not determine target parameters run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//zz-zipl exited with return code 1 dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: linux-firmware linux-image-4.15.0-50-generic initramfs-tools E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1723541 Title: zVM 17.10 install: LVM installation results in IPL UNIT ERROR To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-z-systems/+bug/1723541/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
