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[SOLVED] while upgrading from debian 12.11 to 13.0 errors were encountered while processing: plymouth, plymouth-label and initramfs-tools, how do I solve this? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by arsus5478@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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per my previous post I completed the upgrade to 13.0, including the 900 files I didn't get to download and install after using sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

I now have a working internet connection using a lan cable.

More important than this wlan/lan issue is this new one: each time I try to update/upgrade with either sudo apt --fix-broken install , sudo apt full-upgrade , sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y I get:

`Summary:
Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0 3 not fully installed or removed. Space needed: 0 B / 58.6 GB available

Setting up initramfs-tools (0.148.3) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Setting up plymouth (24.004.60-5) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.12.41+deb13-amd64 zstd: error 70 : Write error : cannot write block : No space left on device E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 E: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-6.12.41+deb13-amd64 with 1. dpkg: error processing package plymouth (--configure): installed plymouth package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of plymouth-label: plymouth-label depends on plymouth (= 24.004.60-5); however: Package plymouth is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package plymouth-label (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.148.3) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.12.41+deb13-amd64 zstd: error 70 : Write error : cannot write block : No space left on device E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 E: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-6.12.41+deb13-amd64 with 1. dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: plymouth plymouth-label initramfs-tools Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) `

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[–] arsus5478@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

would you help the noob here and explain how to do that?

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Something like dpkg -l '*linux-image*' and then see which are installed (ii), and then do a dpkg remove <package name from above> on some, but don't remove the one you are running now, check uname -a to see.

Keep in mind this is all from memory, so might be wrong

Edit: now I see others replied as well with better ways

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

apt autoremove should do it

[–] despotic_machine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

List all installed kernels:

dpkg -l | grep linux-image | awk '{print$2}'

Remove certain kernels:

sudo apt remove --purge linux-image-XXX

where XXX is the kernel version you wish to remove, as printed above. Repeat as needed until all unwanted kernels have been removed.

Then update grub:

sudo update-grub2

And reboot:

sudo reboot

[–] arsus5478@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

thanks. I did all that. Is it safe to reboot? don't want to ruin the machine

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I would run a final update-initramfs -u -k all before a reboot

[–] arsus5478@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

just to avoid misunderstandings, I assume the final >french accent lemmy wont show< in your code is lemmy code and you forgot to type the >french accent lemmy wont show< at the beginning of the command, right? because the one without the >french accent lemmy wont show< returns -bash: update-initramfs: command not found

incidentally, another member suggested I run sudo dpkg-reconfigure initramfs-tools

it returns:

update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.148.3) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.12.41+deb13-amd64 zstd: error 70 : Write error : cannot write block : No space left on device E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 E: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-6.12.41+deb13-amd64 with 1. dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: initramfs-tools

but this is something I don't understand. I deleted 6 old kernels already. There are only 3 left.

After checking KDE Partition Manager for /boot and /boot/efi both have free space left:

/boot size: 488 MiB

/boot used: 396.26 MiB

/boot/efi size: 512 MiB

/boot/efi used: 10.52 MiB

[–] stuner@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I've created a small helper script to help me with this:

#!/bin/bash
USED_VER=$(uname -r)
echo "Kernel version in use: $USED_VER"

echo "Other installed versions:"
dpkg --list 'linux-image*' | grep ^ii | grep -v $USED_VER

echo "Remove unneeded packages above using the following command:"
echo "sudo apt remove linux-image-VERSION"

It prints a list of the installed kernels (excl. the running one) and prints the command to uninstall the packages (it doesn't remove anything by itself).