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From:
blpzbn@gmail.com
Dear Mr. Jover,
Yes, your response is quite unsatisfactory. It fails to ask the question
why there is not enough space on the device that holds boot. Your remark regarding receiving a better response in a separate message suggest to me
that you, yourself, have no confidence in your reply. I might kindly
suggest that a better approach would be to escalate internally to find
someone that might offer a better response before closing the bug.
The boot partition is 512MB. The contents of /boot:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 259624 Feb 7 03:43 config-6.1.0-31-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 259624 Mar 6 00:21 config-6.1.0-32-amd64
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Dec 31 1969 efi
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Mar 23 14:05 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 87400854 Feb 10 16:02 initrd.img-6.1.0-31-amd64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83 Feb 7 03:43 System.map-6.1.0-31-amd64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83 Mar 6 00:21 System.map-6.1.0-32-amd64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8181696 Feb 7 03:43 vmlinuz-6.1.0-31-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8193984 Mar 6 00:21 vmlinuz-6.1.0-32-amd64
Here is the sequence of operations to install updates:
1. An icon appears on the task bar indicating that there updates available.
2. I click on the icon and a Discovery Software Center window opens
displaying "fetching updates".
3. Eventually, a list of updates appears.
4. I click on install.
5 Downloading of the list of updates proceeds, following by installing.
As you see, the entire process is handled by system software. If that
process eventually leads to a failure, that is a software bug by any
sensible definition. Perhaps it is not in dpkg. But I have no way of
reporting it otherwise. If it is not in dpkg, I maintain it is your
obligation to direct the report to the appropriate handler, not simply wash your hands of it and close out the bug.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM Debian Bug Tracking System <
owner@bugs.debian.org> wrote:
This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
which was filed against the dpkg package:
#1101189: Linux image package install failure
It has been closed by Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>.
Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
better one in a separate message then please contact Guillem Jover < guillem@hadrons.org> by
replying to this email.
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1101189: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1101189
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
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From: Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
To: Barry Newberger <blpzbn@gmail.com>, 1101189-done@bugs.debian.org
Cc:
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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 04:31:57 +0100
Subject: Re: Bug#1101189: Linux image package install failure
Hi!
On Mon, 2025-03-24 at 08:06:57 -0500, Barry Newberger wrote:
package: dpkg
version: 1.21.22 (amd64)
Using Discover update following error occurred:
<html>Package failed to install:<br/><br/>Error while installing package: installed linux-image-6.1.0-32-amd64 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1</html>
barryn@debian:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up linux-image-6.1.0-32-amd64 (6.1.129-1) ...
I: /initrd.img is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-32-amd64 /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms:
dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 6.1.0-32-amd64.
dkms: autoinstall for kernel: 6.1.0-32-amd64. /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-32-amd64
cpio: write error: No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 2
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-32-amd64 with 1. run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return
code 1
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-6.1.0-32-amd64 (--configure):
installed linux-image-6.1.0-32-amd64 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Setting up linux-image-6.1.0-31-amd64 (6.1.128-1) ... /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms:
dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 6.1.0-31-amd64.
dkms: autoinstall for kernel: 6.1.0-31-amd64. /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-31-amd64
cpio: write error: No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 2
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-31-amd64 with 1.
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