Public bug reported: Hello,
i have experienced reproducable crashes of the installer. The problem seems to be that my boot partition is to small. I have a /boot partition of about 100 MB The problem seems to be that the initrd file in the boot partition is very big and cannot be properly updated. Is there a restriction to the size of a /boot partition? 100 MB seems to be way to little, even though the initial installation is possible. But at the end of the installation process the installer crashes..... ===== start ==== -> see full log at the end of the report update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.10.0-22-generic gzip: stdout: No space left on device E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1 ===== end ==== I used my existing paritions and i would at least expect a warning (hint) that the /boot partition needs to be of a certain size (or just prevents installation with a too small boot partition). I am also having problems updating the kernel, which seems to be the same cause of the crash of the installer: here is some information: wuesand@wuesand-ESPRIMO-P1510:~/projects/kde/ansible$ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 465,8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x241c6624 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 390625279 390623232 186,3G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 390625280 390819839 194560 95M 83 Linux /dev/sda3 390819840 586131455 195311616 93,1G 83 Linux /dev/sda4 586133502 976771071 390637570 186,3G 5 Extended /dev/sda5 586133504 586717183 583680 285M 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 586719232 976771071 390051840 186G 83 Linux wuesand@wuesand-ESPRIMO-P1510:~/projects/kde/ansible$ sudo mount sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=4042808k,nr_inodes=1010702,mode=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=813128k,mode=755) /dev/sda3 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k) tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd) pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/pids type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory) systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=34,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=3715) debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime) mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime) hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime) /dev/sda2 on /boot type ext2 (rw,relatime,block_validity,barrier,user_xattr,acl) /dev/sda6 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered) tmpfs on /run/user/119 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=813124k,mode=700,uid=119,gid=127) tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=813124k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000) /dev/sda1 on /mnt/ntfs type fuseblk (rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096) wuesand@wuesand-ESPRIMO-P1510:~/projects/kde/ansible$ sudo apt-get upgrade -u Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 5 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Setting up initramfs-tools (0.125ubuntu9) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Setting up linux-image-4.10.0-22-generic (4.10.0-22.24) ... Running depmod. update-initramfs: deferring update (hook will be called later) The link /initrd.img is a dangling linkto /boot/initrd.img-4.10.0-22-generic vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-4.10.0-22-generic ) points to /boot/vmlinuz-4.10.0-22-generic (/boot/vmlinuz-4.10.0-22-generic) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-4.10.0-22-generic.postinst line 491. Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d. run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal 4.10.0-22-generic /boot/vmlinuz-4.10.0-22-generic run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms 4.10.0-22-generic /boot/vmlinuz-4.10.0-22-generic run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 4.10.0-22-generic /boot/vmlinuz-4.10.0-22-generic update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.10.0-22-generic gzip: stdout: No space left on device E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1 update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-4.10.0-22-generic with 1. run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1 Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-4.10.0-22-generic.postinst line 1052. dpkg: error processing package linux-image-4.10.0-22-generic (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-extra-4.10.0-22-generic: linux-image-extra-4.10.0-22-generic depends on linux-image-4.10.0-22-generic; however: Package linux-image-4.10.0-22-generic is not configured yet. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+16ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-19.21-generic 4.10.8 Uname: Linux 4.10.0-19-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Sun Jun 18 00:26:55 2017 SourcePackage: xorg Symptom: display UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug kubuntu zesty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1698594 Title: Kubuntu Installer for 17.04 crashes reproducable with a too small /boot partition due to "No space left on device" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1698594/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs