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I’m getting an error whenever I try to upgrade my packages. For example:

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Is this an encrypted installation ?

I’d try the easy..

in an attempt to clear some space in /boot, if that doesn’t work then a manual removal of some of the older kernels/images can be done. Let’s see what autoremove can do first though.

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I have never seen a listing like that before with those old.dkms files which are taking a lot of space but mostly do not relate to installed kernels.
You appear to have only kernel 4.4.0-36 installed, and 4.4.0-38 which is not yet fully installed and configured, hence it does not show in your listing. Have you ever manually removed any system files from /boot using either the file manager or a sudo rm command?

It would be very helpful to also see the output of command

which will tell us the state of all the kernels installed, removed, and unconfigured on your machine, and will help us sort out what needs removing.

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Thanks, ajgreeny. I seem to have to manually remove old kernel images periodically to free up space on /boot (using commands described here). I’ve never had this error before though.

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You do not tell us which of the multitude of commands on that linked askubuntu thread you used so it is difficult to know if you have done something you ought to have avoided.

» characters doing in your shown command?
They should not be there, unless that is something to do with terminal prompts when using zsh which I don’t know at all. However I can not understand why the dpkg command shows no matches as you obviously must have at least one linux-image installed in order for Ubuntu to run.

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Error while installing or upgrading with apt

I was trying to upgrade debian 9 to 10 but when I tried to run sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade and sudo apt-get full-upgrade, they all got this error message:

I tried running

but then i just got this error message:

Could anybody help me with this?

I was going through the instructions given by GAD3R but I have a slightly different error message this time whenever I trie to do anything with apt:

EDIT 2:

I got as far as doing apt-get upgrade but I keep getting errors:

I am running Debian 9 on an Optiplex 755 PC

Thank you for your time!

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To upgrade debian 9 to 10 you should have only the following lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list :

Disable the third party repository under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory.

In your case you have a ubuntu-xenial repository enabled ( which provide the linux-image-generic-lts-xenial package) it will break your system.

As said @Stephen Kitt , the linux-firmware_1.127.24_all.deb belong to Ubuntu Trusty which cause the error code (1) , it should be removed : apt purge linux-firmware .

To solve the following error ( post-removal script):

Edit the /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-firmware.postrm file and replace its content with:

To solve the following error ( post-installation script):

edit the /var/lib/dpkg/info/snapd.postinst as follows:

Update:

Backup the /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/dpkg/status-old then replace status file by status-old :

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Errors were encountered while processing: initramfs-tools linux-firmware Ubuntu 18.04

i get this error

after some googling i found out it has something to do with /boot partition being full but apparently it’s not , here’s the result of dh -f :

i also can’t install/update/upgrade any package or use dpkg and apt-get. also i deleted old kernels. it seems like an infinite loop of errors and they all take me back to that error

Output of apt policy e2fsprogs libext2fs2

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From these two lines of your output, I conclude that the package e2fsprogs is missing or corrupted:

The first line directly says /sbin/fsck.ext4 is missing, which is a file provided by that package I mentioned. Examining the failing script mentioned in the second line, it turns out that this one requires /sbin/dumpe2fs , which is provided by the same package too.

To fix the issue, you should (re?)install e2fsprogs by running:

The fact that the package containing the failing fixrtc initramfs hook ( initramfs-tools-core ) does not depend on the seemingly required e2fsprogs package though should probably be considered as a bug. I have reported it on Launchpad here.

Update:

As e2fsprogs refuses to install because it conflicts with an incompatible version of libext2fs2 that you have installed from an unknown and no longer available source, we have to downgrade that other package back to the supported version in the process too:

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initramfs error when installing / updating

I’ve been having an error when updating or running any apt command for a week or so. Upgrading to LTS 18.04 hasn’t resolved it, nor has removing all old kernels. Space isn’t an issue either.

Attempting to reinstall initramfs doesn’t work. Error I get is:

Anyone got any ideas as to what I can do?

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Running auto-remove and clean worked for my situation.

apt-get auto-remove && apt-get clean && apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

For me, it was an issue with the initramfs-tools package

Then I no longer received the error

I had this error since more than a year. Now I found a solution.

Explanation: /boot is on a different partition with insufficient space to perform the operation. Solution: do the update on a drive where there is sufficient space and copy back the results.

As pointed out by Harald, the problem was insufficient space on the /boot partition.

His solution didn’t work for me, but led me directly to what did:

cd /boot , then ls to look at the versions of the files already there. Then rm each of the files that have multiple versions, making sure to delete all but the newest, then sudo apt update

A similar question has this solution:

Additionally ensure this command:

returns this output:

This was the solution for me.

I’ve just had a very similar issue when I did an sudo apt autoremove and it failed attempting to install kernel files for a kernel I don’t have. My uname -a shows I’m using kernel version 5.0.0-20 and running ls -al /boot shows only this and the 5.0.0-17 kernel are installed. However, apt suddenly turned up errors and attempted to install files in my /boot for old kernels including 5.0.0-15, 4.18.0-17, 4.13.0-45. Which is weird.

So I figure that somehow they’ve altered the logic for dkms (or something related to initramfs ) and it checks some other locations to see if kernels might be installed and then does updates on those kernels and replaces missing files.

I’m not sure exactly what fixed it but I did:

I have problems with a very tight /boot folder for historical reasons and so removed old kernel files with:

Which finished as expected and returned the system to the expected state without attempting to install extraneous kernels. I did not test as I went along so can not guarantee which part fixed it, but it was not harmful to clear those old files out AFAICT.

Aside, checking my /var/log/apt/history.log file, this appears to be the beginning of this particular error:

But this may be a false flag as for me the limited /boot space can be the cause of the error code (1) .

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Errors were encountered while processing: linux-firmware linux-image-generic linux-generic linux-image-5.4.0-45-gene

Errors were encountered while processing: linux-firmware linux-image-generic linux-generic linux-image-5.4.0-45-gene

Post by anitoanto » Tue Sep 01, 2020 4:24 am

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Post by Welcome » Tue Sep 01, 2020 2:04 pm

Just tried the update, and it worked fine here.

Might have been a problem in the files that were downloaded.

Might have to clean first:

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Post by anitoanto » Tue Sep 08, 2020 6:09 am

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Post by Welcome » Tue Sep 08, 2020 12:25 pm

Wish I knew how you figured that out! Seems pure genius (or magic) to me!

I tried searching (as a learning experience), but didn’t find anything that led me to that conclusion. I can see the code in the plymouth script:

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Post by anitoanto » Wed Sep 09, 2020 2:10 am

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Post by Welcome » Wed Sep 09, 2020 9:36 am

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