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- 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 initramf
It would be easier to remove excessive kernels after this issue, if Bug
#1678187 was fixed.
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Bill Meier, I think GUI application is not necessary. Text-based
application may have checklist, too, so it is pretty easy to make a
selection. Initramfs-tools may not run the application, but it could
give hint to run one in its error message. The script I was talking
about in #140 is such a scrip
Though even Software Updater could be more informative on how to free
more space on /boot: Bug #1460396
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Michael Baker, the bug report Bug #1357093 that you referred to has been
re-reported as Bug #1675079 and Bug #1624644
If you disable automatic installation of updates, and install them by
Software Updater only, it will prevent you from installing kernel
updates, retaining the system in intact stat
give more space for /boot 1gb ?
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Am 05.05.2017 um 13:09 schrieb Bill Meier <798...@bugs.launchpad.net>:
Why not just write a little GUI app for us , so that we "command line
illiterates" can take care of this. We need to select what we want
deleted, just getting rid of
Why not just write a little GUI app for us , so that we "command line
illiterates" can take care of this. We need to select what we want
deleted, just getting rid of the old, I understand, may not be what is
wanted.
Bill
On 05/05/2017 03:13 AM, Michael Baker wrote:
> On booting I am told th
On booting I am told that a system program has encountered an error and asked
if I want to send a report. On saying yes I'm told that the bug has already
been reported and that it is "update-initramfs should produce a more helpful
error when there isn't enough free space".
This is so far from wh
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I think check for enough space could be done in dpkg. It might be just
hard to estimate what is enough space, since the required space for
initrd.img files depends on whether linux-image-extra packages are used,
whether dkms is used and whether backup initrd.img files are generated.
Maybe some envi
i have an older powerful dell xps with lots of free space.. i believe my
partitions are holding me up... i need to allocate more room for the
program I believe... trying to figure out how... not totally a Ubuntu
knower... but I can learn. :)
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http://askubuntu.com/questions/345588/what-is-the-safest-way-to-clean-up-boot-partition
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I added a separate bug report for that case: Bug #1678187
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This error may happen even when purging a kernel by dpkg:
https://paste.ubuntu.com/24280725/
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sfrahm, were you installing updates by Software Updater, when this
happened? If so, you could report a bug by `ubuntu-bug update-manager`
in terminal. Tell it is likely a regression; in 14.04 it does not let
you start update, if there is not enough room for kernels (at least
always), but displays a
Yes sir (jarnos), thank you. This same recurring Bug #1460396 by many
names. Is there a patch like this that also works on 16.04 Lubuntu LTS
?? Every time I have researched it over the years, there are variations
on this theme. This should be a core functionality of each LTS package
upon launch at
sfrahm, I do you mean Bug #1460396.
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Ubuntu 16.04 (ubuntu 4.4.0-64) crashed yet again during upgrade to
4.4.0-66 from this same recurring 5+ year old bug - Pray tell, why can't
Ubuntu just tell me there is not enough room to upgrade the kernel (it
used to) and then perhaps even offer to fix it automagically with some
kind of an automa
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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This annoying bug still exists after more than 5 years, even though
there are documented workarounds and scripts for purging old kernels
available. Is there a chance this bug will ever get fixed?
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There is already a purge-old-kernels command line tool lingering in the
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It is bugs like this that make me question whether I am doing the right
thing converting people to using Ubuntu...
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"a more helpful error" that the title of this bug report calls for would
not free you from the need to remove kernels manually.
I made a script called linux-purge to make it easy to remove extra
kernels even in tricky conditions:
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/38300038-feature-request-the-
co
Happened to me yet again, on a new system, running 16.10. Why is this
still a thing? It affects every single person who uses the OS since if
you don't consciously take steps to prevent it it's guaranteed to
happen. And it means Ubuntu is fundamentally unsuited for general use
because every layperso
This bug is a disgrace. It has been around for years and sabotages many
non-tech users life. If I was able to fix it I would try. Unfortunately
I am not that skilled, can only fix the symptoms not contribute to
fixing the problem itself. But I would think that someone on a higher
skill level could
"No space left on device" error might occur not only when disk space in
/boot is low, but also when there is lack of free inodes in system.
linux-headers* packages have a lot of files, so this may happen during
installing a new kernel. The script mentioned in comment #130 can
operate in most cases
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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 initramf
This hits me constantly. Why is this bug present years on end and three
major Ubuntu versions? The workaround is easy enough, still for many
users it is rocket science and will break the update procedure (I two
other persons that cant fix it themselves). I.e, thus is a critical
problem. Make a test
I was again purging old kernels via the Synaptic package manager
manually when I ran into this bug. As others have remarked above, the
root cause of having to purge kernels manually when /boot runs out of
space is pretty bad; an operating system that purports to be, and mostly
is, easy-to-use, shou
how can i change?
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no puedo ni apagar mi equipo despues que hice la nueva instalacion de
ubuntu creo que es 16.04 algo asi bueno el problema que indica es image
04.04.y termina 39 algo asi bueno eh mandado el reporte ya soy nuevo y
nose como utilizar muy bien el terminar
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Happened again.
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This is an extremely dangerous bug since it prevents further updates.
The package manager does not complete actions until this is resolved.
Few non-sys admins will know how to get around this.
One possible root cause is creating too small of a boot partition at
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Occured here today. Running this simple command to remove old kernels
and unused packages worked around the issue:
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
Alternatively, and to be able to remove even manually installed kernels, you
could use:
sudo purge-old-kernels
To be able to use purge-old-kernels
I hit this today. `df -h` confirmed my /boot was quite full (15MB
left). Running `sudo purge-old-kernels` (from the bikeshed package)
cleared out some things and brought the free space on /boot up to 93MB.
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como hago para entrar en boot y haser la reparticion en los espacios
libres que tengo soy nuevo en esto y nose como aserlo
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Hi Jarno,
Thanks for all your advice and additional thanks to *Pxtl* for the idea of
a script, here's my own variation...
```
sudo apt-get purge `dpkg -l "linux-image-3.13.0-8*" | grep -E
"linux-image-3.13.0-8*" | awk {'print $2'} | tr '\n' ' '`
```
*Explaination*: the *dpkg* lists all the kern
Alan Burgess, have you tried to follow the workaround given in the
description to manually remove old kernels and to setup automatic
removal of old kernels?
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Pxtl, the script is explained in https://markmcb.com/2013/02/04/cleanup-
unused-linux-kernels-in-ubuntu/ I do not recommend to use it, though.
Rather use the instructions in the given workaround. (Even the script
called purge-old-kernels isn't perfect and not usable in some more
complex cases, but
I have a text file in my home directory with the following snippet I
found on an Ubuntu forum that i'm copying and pasting every time my boot
dir runs out of memory:
dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed
"s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^
]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d' | xa
b-vantola, please don't change the assignee unless you're actively
working to fix the bug.
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Hi Gordon,
I've had this same issue for many months and have come to the conclusion
that there is no expertise within Ubuntu or if there is then no one who
is prepared to fix it and get it out to the community.
I have reluctantly had to revert 42 machines back to Windows. Windows 10
now which
Thx I'll look into those solutions, also trying Ubuntu live with GParted to
resize boot partition to 512 MB, in process of building image with
UNETbootin now.
Again appreciate fast response time.
Kind regards,
Gordon
On Jul 21, 2016 11:55 AM, "Jarno Suni" <798...@bugs.launchpad.net>
wrote:
Gord
Gordon, oh, according to the screenshot your system seems to have both
generic and lowlatency kernels installed. Is that on purpose? Does
"linux-version list" output all the releases? If not, see
http://askubuntu.com/q/779031/21005 . Be careful with purge-old-kernels.
You might want to use its --ke
Gordon, apt-get autoremove will not help for Ubunbu Studio 14.04 unless you
have installed security updates automatically. Use e.g. command
sudo purge-old-kernels
from bikeshed package to remove extra kernels in Trusty. If that does not work,
see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documen
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space, subsequently its possible for update-initramfs to fail due to a
lack of free space. This is resulting in package installation failures
for initramf
I'm still having this issue on Ubuntu Studio lowlatency kernel updates
using the following cmds:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Then it fails, seems to recover, not entirely convinced :(
Is there a way to safely increase the boot part
After running sudo apt-get autoremove I was able to download and install
updates without receiving the initramfs error message.
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mine df
```
df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 3997848 0 3997848 0% /dev
tmpfs 803444 10096793348 2% /run
/dev/dm-1 237116104 208916688 16131576 93% /
tmpfs4017208 6892 4010316 1% /dev/shm
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you can always bypass this, just use Terminal and sudo apt-get upgrade
command
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Fixing these will make the failure less likely to happen:
Bug 1357093
Bug 1460396
Bug 1465050
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Fair enough. I've unmarked it as a duplicate.
Technically, yes, this bug is about the error message, although the
"WORKAROUND" in the description is a bit of a misnomer, since it focuses
on resolving the issue that resulted in the error.
Updating the copy should be easy enough; I can tackle that
Sebastian Nohn, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-
manager/+bug/1054927/comments/7 claims unattended-upgrades has been
fixed in Xenial (that contains version 0.90). I understand it so that
extra kernels should be automatically removed in Xenial. If that is not
the case and /boot gets
Interpolating the number of bugs to the number of users affected,
looking into Google searches for users looking for help solving the
problems caused by this, my guess is these are amongst the most annoying
open bugs in Ubuntu out there.
Is there any chance that any of these bugs will be fixed in
I agree with Jarno; these three bugs are related, but this one (at
least) is not an exact duplicate of the other two. This one is
explicitly and exclusively about mkinitramfs, whereas the other two are
more general and can be triggered in other ways. (Those two might be
duplicates of each other, bu
Luke Faraone, please revert the duplicates, or comment here your
justification.
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Luke Faraone, I think bug 1357093 and bug 1054927 are not duplicates of
this. They are about getting automatic removal of excessive kernels done
by default. This bug is about handling the case where /boot is about to
fill up better. The bugs affect to different packages.
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Agreed. This is such a large omission that I am tempted to believe it is
on purpose. There are workarounds to temporarily fix the problem, but
they are so complicated that a novice, such as myself, must employ great
effort to find the temporary fixes. This seems to be a very bad way to
promote an o
For those that can no longer run autoremove (like me, above), and don't
like messing around int he /boot drive without someone else giving them
reassurance, here's what I did:
# figure out what the oldest kernel files are named (version) so you can
delete them:
(tp)hobson@hobs-dell:/boot$ ls -al
REALLY disappointed in Canonical and Ubuntu. Why isn't a bug like this
the very top priority of Canonical's development team and the open
source community? The bug potentially affects all users and prevents
those users from upgrading the kernel, even to plug security holes.
Aren't security and kern
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@Kishor, please do not assign yourself to bugs unless you plan on
working on the fix yourself.
I increased the minimum size of boot on new installs already (that was
bug 1465050), which should help alleviate the problem; there could still
be some work done to improve the error message there, but i
For desktops, I think /boot should be 500MB; however for servers, 250MB
still makes sense.
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I know others have said similar but I don't understand why the automatic
settings only reserve 250Mb for boot drive.
Why not make it 5G then it won't run out of space?
or perhaps 5% of the drive space ?
I will try to boot off a cd key and adjust mine to overcome this
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The only thing I can add here (and hopefully I'm not repeating anyone
here) is /boot claims to be about 75% full, and I have also seen it 100%
on another system of mine. It appears the problem is during the
transition between kernel 4.3 and 4.4. I use an encrypted partition on
both systems, one of
@dmcnutt
USB disks show up here just like other disks in "df", so that's normal.
/dev/dm-0 is most likely an encrypted partition. /boot cannot be in an
encrypted partition because you need it for decryption. If the disk was just
one big encrypted partition, you'd need to boot on a USB stick or s
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@Andy Balaam, another thank you! I would also like to second William
Burt and everyone else who has said enough already!
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Andy Balaam, thank you indeed. I am a new Ubuntu user, switching from
Windows (work). Can't believe this kludge has been going on as long as
the comments indicate. Board comments led me to try your fix, and it
worked.
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Andy Balaam, thank you. That worked!
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I have installed several systems using the encryption option from the
graphical installer. I really need to use the full disk encryption and
the installer option seems to be the most straightforward way to achieve
this. As far as I remember the manual partitioning did not allow to
setup LVM, which
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Very helpful Mr. Ager-Wick
Its strange that partitions show up as /boot under, somehow under /dev/sda1.
I guess that makes sence but I also have a disk reported as
/dev/sdb1 /media/kit/UNTITLED
which is actually a portable disk tied in by USB connections. (kit is
another user)
/dev/null/ is abo
Completely agree with @grey - it is unacceptable that such a simple
thing will consistently create problems for ALL ubuntu users, many of
which will not be comfortable with entering "sudo apt-get -y autoremove"
or whatever in terminal.
I do understand the issue though - each kernel is a separate p
I second ~grey's assertion. I installed Wily 15.10 only a few weeks ago
and accepted the default /boot partition size suggested for use with LVM
and today was unable to perform a routine package upgrade due to a lack
of free space on /boot. I was able to work around the problem by first
listing ins
@dmcnutt /boot is usually a separate partition, byt default around
250MB, which is way too small. Use command "df" to see how much space
you have left on each partition. if /boot is nearly full, it doesn't
help if / has loads of space.
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4+ years and still not fixed. And no, to the many people who have
listed how to "fix" it via apt commands, that is not a fix, that is a
kludge. APT (in its myriad forms) is a package manager. That means
these kernel packages should be managed. So here are the facts.
1: Ubuntu now suggests for
I have found a problem several times running updates which are coming
more and more often. That's probably good for security but the automated
attempt to update adds a bunch of files to a root level directory, like
this:
lenovo[~]> cd /boot
lenovo[/boot]> ls -l
total 92010
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root
Like #86, but for me it took 3 weeks. Depends on number of kernel
patches released after initial install. The OS should `sudo apt-get
autoclean` instead of crash. Fine to "notify" user of the inadequate
default boot partition size, but definitely not OK to scare them with a
"Crash" notice every tim
Like #84, I ran into this issue after only a few weeks of running a
standard Ubuntu installation with full disk encryption.
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Surely the installation process should automatically remove the oldest
kernel before installing the newest one if there isn't enough space to
install the newest one?
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I think this is a pretty serious issue because if you select Full Disk
Encryption when install Ubuntu a very small (~250e6 byte) partition is
created. Each kernel update creates another (~30e6 byte) initrd.img file
and you quickly run out of space (only enough space for about 4 kernel
upgrades). Ty
** Changed in: initramfs-tools
Assignee: Joe (jrhodgeneo74) => (unassigned)
** No longer affects: initramfs-tools
** Also affects: initramfs-tools
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: initramfs-tools
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798414
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