Bug#1076582: initramfs-tools-core: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 (No space left on device)
Package: initramfs-tools-core
Version: 0.142
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
When upgrading the firmware:
[...]
Setting up firmware-intel-graphics (20240610-1) ...
Setting up firmware-iwlwifi (20240610-1) ...
Setting up firmware-misc-nonfree (20240610-1) ...
Setting up firmware-nvidia-graphics (20240610-1) ...
Setting up firmware-intel-misc (20240610-1) ...
Setting up firmware-mediatek (20240610-1) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.9.9-amd64
zstd: error 70 : Write error : cannot write block : No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-6.9.9-amd64 with 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:
initramfs-tools
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E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.142) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.9.9-amd64
zstd: error 70 : Write error : cannot write block : No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-6.9.9-amd64 with 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:
initramfs-tools
This is wrong. There's plenty of space:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 16G 0 16G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.2G 5.1M 3.1G 1% /run
/dev/mapper/qaa--vg-root 915G 307G 562G 36% /
tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /dev/shm
efivarfs 438K 308K 126K 72% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
tmpfs 5.0M 12K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-udev-load-credentials.service
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-sysctl.service
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev-early.service
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-cryptsetup@nvme0n1p3_crypt.service
/dev/nvme0n1p2 456M 243M 189M 57% /boot
tmpfs 16G 24K 16G 1% /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p1 511M 42M 470M 9% /boot/efi
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/getty@tty1.service
tmpfs 3.2G 60K 3.2G 1% /run/user/1000
There was no such issue with the latest upgrades.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.7.12-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages initramfs-tools-core depends on:
ii coreutils 9.4-3.1
ii cpio 2.15+dfsg-1
ii e2fsprogs 1.47.1-1
ii klibc-utils 2.0.13-4
ii kmod 32+20240611-1
ii logsave 1.47.1-1
ii udev 256.2-1
Versions of packages initramfs-tools-core recommends:
ii busybox 1:1.36.1-9
ii zstd 1.5.6+dfsg-1
Versions of packages initramfs-tools-core suggests:
ii bash-completion 1:2.14.0-1
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