That issue was a transitional problem; it is gone now on my system since a while.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1674568 Title: depmod: ERROR: could not open directory /lib/modules/4.8.0-25-generic: No such file or directory Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Please affect that report to the real package; i've chosen apt by default as i've no idea about the faulty one. Doing some daily upgrades as usual, and have seen that curious error while setting 'initramfs': Setting up linux-firmware (1.164) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.10.0-14-generic update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.10.0-13-generic update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-25-generic WARNING: missing /lib/modules/4.8.0-25-generic Ensure all necessary drivers are built into the linux image! depmod: ERROR: could not open directory /lib/modules/4.8.0-25-generic: No such file or directory depmod: FATAL: could not search modules: No such file or directory depmod: WARNING: could not open /var/tmp/mkinitramfs_B55FjX/lib/modules/4.8.0-25-generic/modules.order: No such file or directory depmod: WARNING: could not open /var/tmp/mkinitramfs_B55FjX/lib/modules/4.8.0-25-generic/modules.builtin: No such file or directory update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-0-generic WARNING: missing /lib/modules/4.8.0-0-generic Ensure all necessary drivers are built into the linux image! depmod: ERROR: could not open directory /lib/modules/4.8.0-0-generic: No such file or directory depmod: FATAL: could not search modules: No such file or directory depmod: WARNING: could not open /var/tmp/mkinitramfs_1ESFuC/lib/modules/4.8.0-0-generic/modules.order: No such file or directory depmod: WARNING: could not open /var/tmp/mkinitramfs_1ESFuC/lib/modules/4.8.0-0-generic/modules.builtin: No such file or directory That ZZ installation indeed only has 4.10 kernels installed, and is often checked for cleaning (autoremove/bleachbit). Packages are always purged when removed. So i wonder why and which process/script has left a crappy /boot/ list of initrd.img-4.8* to produce the errors above. oem@u64:~$ ls -la /boot/ total 142448 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 21 06:24 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Mar 20 19:13 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1442575 Mar 9 14:16 abi-4.10.0-13-generic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1442782 Mar 9 21:30 abi-4.10.0-14-generic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 204890 Mar 9 14:16 config-4.10.0-13-generic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 204890 Mar 9 21:30 config-4.10.0-14-generic drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 20 2016 efi drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Mar 20 19:17 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49676849 Mar 21 06:24 initrd.img-4.10.0-13-generic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49672961 Mar 21 06:23 initrd.img-4.10.0-14-generic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10017268 Mar 21 06:24 initrd.img-4.8.0-0-generic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10017066 Mar 21 06:24 initrd.img-4.8.0-25-generic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182704 Jan 28 2016 memtest86+.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184380 Jan 28 2016 memtest86+.elf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184840 Jan 28 2016 memtest86+_multiboot.bin -rw------- 1 root root 3715891 Mar 9 14:16 System.map-4.10.0-13-generic -rw------- 1 root root 3716749 Mar 9 21:30 System.map-4.10.0-14-generic -rw------- 1 root root 7558928 Mar 9 14:16 vmlinuz-4.10.0-13-generic -rw------- 1 root root 7563024 Mar 9 21:30 vmlinuz-4.10.0-14-generic ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04 Package: linux-firmware 1.164 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-14.16-generic 4.10.3 Uname: Linux 4.10.0-14-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Tue Mar 21 06:28:04 2017 Dependencies: PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: linux-firmware UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1674568/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp