E: Sub-process error (1) after do-release-upgrade

[mytinytown]

Hello,

I am not a Linux master, but I know enough to get by, so it could be a simple fix and I just don't know.

During the do-release-upgrade process from 11.11 Server to 12.04 I had an error. I can not tell you the exact error, but it was very similar, if not the same as this error:


@Theserver:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.99ubuntu13) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic-pae

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic-pae with 1.
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



I have tried:


@Theserver:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.99ubuntu13) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic-pae

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic-pae with 1.
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


and this:



@Theserver:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.99ubuntu13) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic-pae

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic-pae with 1.
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
initramfs-tools


Finally I tried:


@Theserver:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall initramfs-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.99ubuntu13) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic-pae

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic-pae with 1.
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


There is 9+ GB available on the partition.

[drmrgd]

Are you positive that there is more than 9 GB available? The error really does suggest that there is not enough space on the partition you're trying to install to. What is the output of
df -h?

[mytinytown]

Samba shows 9GB available and I did remove a few items too.

Here is what I got:


@Theserver:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/Theserver-root 16G 5.2G 9.2G 37% /
udev 115M 4.0K 115M 1% /dev
tmpfs 49M 1.7M 47M 4% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 122M 0 122M 0% /run/shm
/dev/sda1 228M 216M 437K 100% /boot
/dev/sdb1 37G 24G 12G 68% /Public
192.168.2.2:/Public 37G 24G 12G 68% /Fileserver

[itzpraveenv]

try this
sudo

sudo rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/info/initramfs-tools.post*
sudo rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/info/initramfs-tools.pre*

sudo rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/info/bcmwl-kernel-source.post*
sudo rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/info/bcmwl-kernel-source.pre*

sudo dpkg --configure -a

[mytinytown]

OK


@Theserver:~$ sudo rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/info/initramfs-tools.post*
[sudo] password for mdius:
@Theserver:~$ sudo rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/info/initramfs-tools.pre*
@Theserver:~$ sudo rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/info/bcmwl-kernel-source.post*
@Theserver:~$ sudo rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/info/bcmwl-kernel-source.pre*
@Theserver:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.99ubuntu13) ...


After I ran apt-get upgrade and got:


@Theserver:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

It appears to be fixed!
Thank you!!!!