Re: Re: Updating kernels impossible when /boot is getting full

[Paul Duncan <paul.d@soi-team.org>]

Hmmm... Thats a little annoying.

Maybe try removing the -22 image manually, like this:

apt-get remove linux-image-5.11.0-22

See if that works. If it doesn't, I'm not sure what else to try - other than a re-install - at which I would make /boot a little bigger :-)

I'm sure others more knowledgeable than me will chime in with ideas too.

Best Regards,

Paul.

On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 at 10:39, Ilkka Huotari <ilkkah@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Paul,

Thanks. I should have said, that also apt-get autoremove fails:

$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.139ubuntu3) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.139ubuntu3) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.11.0-25-generic
Error 24 : Write error : cannot write compressed block
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 lz4 -9 -l 24
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.11.0-25-generic 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
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Maybe this is a bug in the dpkg? 

This sounds like some disk (it's a few years old SSD) error, but I don't know:

"Error 24 : Write error : cannot write compressed block"

Contents of the /boot:

total 343M
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 248K kesä   17 01:38 config-5.11.0-22-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 248K heinä   9 20:42 config-5.11.0-25-generic
drwx------  6 root root 4,0K tammi   1  1970 efi
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4,0K heinä  23 13:13 grub
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 153M heinä  10 14:22 initrd.img-5.11.0-22-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 151M heinä  23 13:13 initrd.img-5.11.0-25-generic
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   28 heinä  23 06:04 initrd.img.old -> initrd.img-5.11.0-22-generic
drwx------  2 root root  16K heinä   6 08:52 lost+found
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 179K elo    18  2020 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 181K elo    18  2020 memtest86+.elf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 181K elo    18  2020 memtest86+_multiboot.bin
-rw-------  1 root root 5,7M kesä   17 01:38 System.map-5.11.0-22-generic
-rw-------  1 root root 5,7M heinä   9 20:42 System.map-5.11.0-25-generic
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   25 heinä  23 06:04 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-5.11.0-25-generic
-rw-------  1 root root  15M kesä   17 01:55 vmlinuz-5.11.0-22-generic
-rw-------  1 root root  15M heinä   9 21:04 vmlinuz-5.11.0-25-generic
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   25 heinä  23 06:04 vmlinuz.old -> vmlinuz-5.11.0-22-generic

Ilkka

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