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) `
help appreciated
Write error : cannot write block : No space left on device
Seems like your boot partition is full.
For some reason the Debian installer likes to make a tiny
/boot
so you can only fit 2-3 kernels at most. Try removing some old ones first.would you help the noob here and explain how to do that?
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).
apt autoremove should do it
Something like
dpkg -l '*linux-image*'
and then see which are installed (ii
), and then do adpkg remove <package name from above>
on some, but don’t remove the one you are running now, checkuname -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