This can be reproduced when creating a bootable USB pen drive image using
Ubuntu package UNetbootin.
Tested with latest Ubuntu Precise Beta2 i386 desktop CD image.
However, I am not sure if this is possibly a bug of Ubuntu package
"unetbootin" instead of "initramfs-tools".
It is a severe problem when using an Ubuntu live-disk as a rescue system for
systems using Linux
logical volume management (lvm), as I had to find out the hard way.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a bootable USB installation, using "unetbootin", of abovementioned
Ubuntu Precise Pangolin Beta2 CD image,
setting the persistend storage file size to a nonzero value, e.g. 3GB for a 4GB
USB drive.
2. Boot from the freshly created USB drive installation and start a root
terminal.
3. Install some package that triggers the update-initramfs trigger; e.g.:
apt-get update && apt-get install lvm2
4. dpkg fails with "lzma: (stdout): Write error: No space left on
device".
Now the package management is in an inconsistent, broken state.
No further package updates/removals are possible.
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package initramfs-tools 0.99ubuntu9 [modified: usr/sbin/update-
initramfs] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-
installation script returned error exit status 1
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