[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs does not check for free space

[kireol]

I apologize.  I'm having a bad day, #1.  And #2 I had 2 tabs open and read
the wrong thread which was completely unrelated to mine.  again, sorry.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Kireol - I selected your bug report as a duplicate of this one because
> of the following error message in your DpkgTerminalLog.txt file attached
> to your bug report.
>
> "gzip: stdout: No space left on device
> update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-32-generic"
>
> Looking at your df output /boot is on a separate partition and it in
> fact doesn't have much free space.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798414
>
> Title:
>  update-initramfs does not check for free space
>
> Status in “initramfs-tools” package in Ubuntu:
>  New
>
> 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 or manually free space on
>  your partition containing the /boot file system.
>
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Title:
  update-initramfs does not check for free space

Status in “initramfs-tools” package in Ubuntu:
  New

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 or manually free space on
  your partition containing the /boot file system.

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