Control: severity -1 important On Thursday, 18 July 2024 10:54:48 CEST Diederik de Haas wrote: > Control: severity -1 minor > > On 18 Jul 2024 09:43:38 +0200 Bastian Venthur <vent...@debian.org> wrote: > > Package: plymouth > > Version: 24.004.60-2 > > Severity: important > > X-Debbugs-Cc: vent...@debian.org > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > trying to update plymouth fails with "No space left on device": > > > > sudo aptitude -u > > Performing actions... > > Setting up initramfs-tools (0.142) ... > > update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) > > Setting up plymouth (24.004.60-2) ... > > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.9.9-amd64 > > ... > > W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/smu_14_0_2.bin for > > module amdgpu 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 plymouth (--configure): > > installed plymouth package post-installation script subprocess returned > > error exit status 1> > > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of plymouth-label: > > plymouth-label depends on plymouth (= 24.004.60-2); however: > > Package plymouth is not configured yet. > > > > /boot still has 170MB free: > > > > # df -h /boot > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/nvme0n1p2 471M 275M 172M 62% /boot > > I fail to see how this is any package's problem. > Your boot partition is too small to perform the requested operation. > > During compression it needs the space for the uncompressed files and > the space needed for the compressed archive, so it generally needs > (much) more space then it finally needs as the uncompressed files will > be removed again once the compressed archive is complete.
Looks like I was incorrect on that one; from 929424#10 : "initramfs-tools doesn't store temporary files on /boot" Apologies for that. Today I learned something new and that is that plymouth includes GPU modules AND their firmware in the initramfs. And with the now much larger firmware packages/files, that made the actual problem much more urgent. > Solution: make your boot partition larger. Or remove older/other > kernels, but IMO this will only delay the inevitable. And that is IMO still the actual issue. Due to a VERY similar bug report, I was made aware of some rather horrific advise ... in the official Debian documentation: https://bugs.debian.org/1076582#27 On the d-i size (in code) things were apparently already evolved into this century, but I still think 512MB for /boot partition is problematic. And even more so when plymouth is in the mix, where (too many?) firmware files get included in initramfs. > Reducing severity to minor, but I actually think it should just be closed. So I bumped up the severity, but not reassigned it as I think it's useful if all these reports came in on the same Mailing List, which in this case is the debian-kernel ML ... > On 18 Jul 2024 10:17:20 +0200 Laurent Bigonville <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > > It's related to firmware-misc-nonfree that is now pulling > > firmware-nvidia-graphics that contains a lot of (non-free) firmwares. > > > > With firmware-nvidia-graphics installed, my initramfs grows to something > > like 200M compared to 64M without it. > > The firmware-nvidia-graphics package was created exactly because its size > got big(ger) and (partially therefor) deserved its own package instead of > making the firmware-misc-nonfree extremely large. That package is meant > for 'the other' firmware which don't deserve their own package. > The firmware-nvidia-graphics is recommended by firmware-misc-nonfree as > the nvidia graphics firmware files were moved from the latter to the former. > > Solution: If you don't need firmware-nvidia-graphics, don't install it. > If you do need it, but don't have the space for it, then increase your > storage size. That's still correct (though). But it may be useful to extend the NEWS to be more explicit and verbose about the potential consequences. Cheers, Diederik
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