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

[Massimo Manchi]

Hi.

I've an alert "/boot full" that is on sda1

df -H
File system                   Dim. Usati Dispon. Uso% Montato su
/dev/mapper/lubuntu--vg-root   57G   19G     36G  35% /
none                          4,1k     0    4,1k   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev                          1,1G  4,1k    1,1G   1% /dev
tmpfs                         211M  1,1M    210M   1% /run
none                          5,3M     0    5,3M   0% /run/lock
none                          1,1G  1,1M    1,1G   1% /run/shm
none                          105M   17k    105M   1% /run/user
/dev/sda1                     239M  236M       0 100% /boot
/dev/sdb1                     1,1T  717M    1,0T   1% /media/massimo/Seagate Expansion Drive

and this is the ls

ls /boot
abi-3.8.0-19-generic            initrd.img-3.8.0-26-generic
abi-3.8.0-21-generic            initrd.img-3.8.0-27-generic
abi-3.8.0-22-generic            initrd.img-3.8.0-28-generic
abi-3.8.0-23-generic            lost+found
abi-3.8.0-24-generic            memtest86+.bin
abi-3.8.0-25-generic            memtest86+_multiboot.bin
abi-3.8.0-26-generic            System.map-3.8.0-19-generic
abi-3.8.0-27-generic            System.map-3.8.0-21-generic
abi-3.8.0-28-generic            System.map-3.8.0-22-generic
config-3.8.0-19-generic      System.map-3.8.0-23-generic
config-3.8.0-21-generic      System.map-3.8.0-24-generic
config-3.8.0-22-generic      System.map-3.8.0-25-generic
config-3.8.0-23-generic      System.map-3.8.0-26-generic
config-3.8.0-24-generic      System.map-3.8.0-27-generic
config-3.8.0-25-generic      System.map-3.8.0-28-generic
config-3.8.0-26-generic      vmlinuz-3.8.0-19-generic
config-3.8.0-27-generic      vmlinuz-3.8.0-21-generic
config-3.8.0-28-generic      vmlinuz-3.8.0-22-generic
grub                                         vmlinuz-3.8.0-23-generic
initrd.img-3.8.0-19-generic  vmlinuz-3.8.0-24-generic
initrd.img-3.8.0-21-generic  vmlinuz-3.8.0-25-generic
initrd.img-3.8.0-22-generic  vmlinuz-3.8.0-26-generic
initrd.img-3.8.0-23-generic  vmlinuz-3.8.0-27-generic
initrd.img-3.8.0-24-generic  vmlinuz-3.8.0-28-generic
initrd.img-3.8.0-25-generic

Can I delete something to let free space or I must enlarge this space?

Macs

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

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

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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