[Bug 2044617] [NEW] Problems with firmware-sof-signed package

[Marcos Alano]

Public bug reported:

I'm getting error related to upgrade of of firmware-sof-signed package
because the read-only file system of /lib/firmware. The error I'm
getting is:

mhalano at marcos-alano-pc-q35-8-0:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ sudo apt install firmware-sof-signed 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libmozjs-102-0
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages will be upgraded:
  firmware-sof-signed
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/3,180 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,072 B of additional disk space will be used.
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'firmware-sof-signed' missing; assumi
ng package has no files currently installed
(Reading database ... 115231 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../firmware-sof-signed_2.2.6-1ubuntu1.1_all.deb ...
Unpacking firmware-sof-signed (2.2.6-1ubuntu1.1) over (2.2.6-1ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/firmware-sof-signed_2.2.6
-1ubuntu1.1_all.deb (--unpack):
 unable to create '/lib/firmware/intel/sof/community/sof-apl.ri.zst.dpkg-new' (w
hile processing './lib/firmware/intel/sof/community/sof-apl.ri.zst'): Read-only 
file system
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 unable to remove newly-extracted version of '/lib/firmware/intel/sof/community/
sof-apl.ri.zst': Read-only file system
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/firmware-sof-signed_2.2.6-1ubuntu1.1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

IMO this package should be part of the conflict list as linux-firmware.

** Affects: boot-managed-by-snapd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Problems with firmware-sof-signed package

Status in boot-managed-by-snapd package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm getting error related to upgrade of of firmware-sof-signed package
  because the read-only file system of /lib/firmware. The error I'm
  getting is:

  mhalano at marcos-alano-pc-q35-8-0:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ sudo apt install firmware-sof-signed 
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree... Done
  Reading state information... Done
  The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
    libmozjs-102-0
  Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    firmware-sof-signed
  1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
  1 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0 B/3,180 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 3,072 B of additional disk space will be used.
  dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'firmware-sof-signed' missing; assumi
  ng package has no files currently installed
  (Reading database ... 115231 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../firmware-sof-signed_2.2.6-1ubuntu1.1_all.deb ...
  Unpacking firmware-sof-signed (2.2.6-1ubuntu1.1) over (2.2.6-1ubuntu1) ...
  dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/firmware-sof-signed_2.2.6
  -1ubuntu1.1_all.deb (--unpack):
   unable to create '/lib/firmware/intel/sof/community/sof-apl.ri.zst.dpkg-new' (w
  hile processing './lib/firmware/intel/sof/community/sof-apl.ri.zst'): Read-only 
  file system
  dpkg: error while cleaning up:
   unable to remove newly-extracted version of '/lib/firmware/intel/sof/community/
  sof-apl.ri.zst': Read-only file system
  dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/firmware-sof-signed_2.2.6-1ubuntu1.1_all.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  IMO this package should be part of the conflict list as linux-
  firmware.

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