Errors during autoremove

[tboerner]

What I can see here is that this seems always to be the problem:

Fatal: open /boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-76-generic: No such file or directory

And this is ALWAYS preceded by this:

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-109-generic

There must be a problem with that kernel or with initramfs I think. What about trying to remove this kernel (the ...-109)? Make sure it is not the actually running one (uname -a )!

[marciano#1]

Hi!
109 is the present used kernel

uname -a

4.15.0-109-generic #110-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 23 02:39:32 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[marciano#1]

Hi!
109 is the present used kernel

uname -a

4.15.0-109-generic #110-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 23 02:39:32 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Bashing-om]

marciano#1; Sorry -

As much as it pains me - I must admit that I do not know what else to check, nor a way forward.

a know it all I am not

[marciano#1]

I rebooted and loaded kernel ...108

4.15.0-108-generic #109-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 19 11:33:10 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Should I remove kernel ...109?
How so?
Thank you!

[Bashing-om]

marciano#1; Well

Should I remove kernel ...109?

NO - that is the backup kernel for the -111 version.

Did kernel 111 install fully ?

dpkg -l | grep linux- 
ls -al /

Needed is to find why 4.15.0-76-generic is still on the system that might be holding up linux-firmware et all.

But I just do not know

[marciano#1]

dpkg -l | grep linux-

ii binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 amd64 GNU binary utilities, for x86-64-linux-gnu target
ii linux-base 4.5ubuntu1.2 all Linux image base package
iF linux-firmware 1.173.19 all Firmware for Linux kernel drivers
iU linux-generic 4.15.0.111.99 amd64 Complete Generic Linux kernel and headers
ii linux-headers-4.15.0-109 4.15.0-109.110 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 4.15.0
ii linux-headers-4.15.0-109-generic 4.15.0-109.110 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 4.15.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-4.15.0-111 4.15.0-111.112 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 4.15.0
ii linux-headers-4.15.0-111-generic 4.15.0-111.112 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 4.15.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-generic 4.15.0.111.99 amd64 Generic Linux kernel headers
iF linux-image-4.15.0-108-generic 4.15.0-108.109 amd64 Signed kernel image generic
iF linux-image-4.15.0-109-generic 4.15.0-109.110 amd64 Signed kernel image generic
iF linux-image-4.15.0-111-generic 4.15.0-111.112 amd64 Signed kernel image generic
ic linux-image-4.15.0-91-generic 4.15.0-91.92 amd64 Signed kernel image generic
iU linux-image-generic 4.15.0.111.99 amd64 Generic Linux kernel image
ii linux-libc-dev:amd64 4.15.0-109.110 amd64 Linux Kernel Headers for development
ii linux-modules-4.15.0-108-generic 4.15.0-108.109 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.15.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-modules-4.15.0-109-generic 4.15.0-109.110 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.15.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-modules-4.15.0-111-generic 4.15.0-111.112 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.15.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ic linux-modules-4.15.0-91-generic 4.15.0-91.92 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.15.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-108-generic 4.15.0-108.109 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.15.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-109-generic 4.15.0-109.110 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.15.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-111-generic 4.15.0-111.112 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.15.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ic linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-91-generic 4.15.0-91.92 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.15.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
iU linux-signed-generic 4.15.0.109.97 amd64 Complete Signed Generic Linux kernel and headers (dummy transitional package)
ii linux-sound-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu5 all base package for ALSA and OSS sound systems
ii syslinux-common 3:6.03+dfsg1-2 all collection of bootloaders (common)
ii syslinux-legacy 2:3.63+dfsg-2ubuntu9 amd64 Bootloader for Linux/i386 using MS-DOS floppies

ls -al /

total 15728752
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 jul 14 19:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 jul 14 19:04 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 jun 7 11:37 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 jul 17 06:31 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 abr 30 2018 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4580 jul 17 00:02 dev
drwxr-xr-x 144 root root 12288 jul 17 06:31 etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 abr 30 2018 home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 jul 14 19:04 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-111-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 jul 14 19:04 initrd.img.old -> boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-109-generic
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 abr 30 2018 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 jul 9 09:42 lib64
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 abr 30 2018 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 ene 16 21:37 media
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 jun 28 2019 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 may 1 2018 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 299 root root 0 jul 16 18:57 proc
drwx------ 6 root root 4096 ene 9 2020 root
drwxr-xr-x 33 root root 1100 jul 17 12:04 run
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 jul 8 06:15 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 abr 25 11:31 snap
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 jul 3 2018 srv
-rw------- 1 root root 16106127360 may 1 2018 swapfile
dr-xr-xr-x 13 root root 0 jul 16 18:57 sys
drwxrwxrwt 19 root root 4096 jul 17 11:59 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 ago 13 2019 usr
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 abr 26 2018 var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 jul 14 19:04 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-111-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 jul 14 19:04 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-109-generic

[Bashing-om]

marciano#1; Yukkies again

You have time and again removed old kernel modules and they re-appear - no idea here WHY.
The latest kernel, -111, also failed to (U)npack thus did not fully install due to the linux-firmwares failures.

Presently no additional idea of a way forward

I hate when that happens