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Petro Gromovo avatar Ubuntu

Failed to upgrade kubuntu 20

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Petro Gromovo

I try to upgrade my kubuntu 20, but got errors :

# uname -a
Linux master-laptop 5.11.0-36-generic #40~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Sat Sep 18 02:14:19 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# sudo apt install -y libnotify-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libnotify-bin is already the newest version (0.7.9-1ubuntu2).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  appmenu-gtk-module-common libappmenu-gtk3-parser0 libllvm11 libnvidia-extra-470-server libreoffice-help-common
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up linux-firmware (1.187.19) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.11.0-36-generic
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/skl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/bxt_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/glk_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/cml_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/icl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/ehl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/ehl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/tgl_huc_7.5.0.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/tgl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/tgl_huc_7.5.0.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/tgl_guc_49.0.1.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/dg1_dmc_ver2_02.bin for module i915
I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sdb6
I: (UUID=28ee0d89-a0cc-45ab-bb0c-aeaee8072afa)
I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
Error 24 : Write error : cannot write compressed block 
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 lz4 -9 -l 24
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.11.0-36-generic with 1.
dpkg: error processing package linux-firmware (--configure):
 installed linux-firmware package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-firmware
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

How can I fix it ?

MODIFIED BLOCK : Trying to install libnotify-bin I upgraded with command before:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

where I got the error. No I have free space on my 2 disks:

# df -HT   
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev           devtmpfs  4,1G     0  4,1G   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs     827M  2,2M  824M   1% /run
/dev/sdb2      ext4       53G   22G   28G  44% /
tmpfs          tmpfs     4,2G  147M  4,0G   4% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs     5,3M  4,1k  5,3M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs          tmpfs     4,2G     0  4,2G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb7      ext4       30G  8,7G   20G  31% /var
/dev/sdb1      ext4      339M  245M   69M  79% /boot
/dev/sdb8      fuseblk   399G  145G  254G  37% /mnt/_work_sdb8
/dev/loop1     squashfs  132k  132k     0 100% /snap/bare/5
/dev/loop2     squashfs  173M  173M     0 100% /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/161
/dev/loop3     squashfs  153M  153M     0 100% /snap/chromium/1772
/dev/loop0     squashfs  153M  153M     0 100% /snap/chromium/1781
/dev/loop4     squashfs   69M   69M     0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1519
/dev/loop5     squashfs   35M   35M     0 100% /snap/snapd/13270
/dev/loop6     squashfs   59M   59M     0 100% /snap/core18/2128
/dev/loop7     squashfs   34M   34M     0 100% /snap/snapd/13170
/dev/loop8     squashfs   69M   69M     0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1515
/dev/sda1      fuseblk    65G   58G  7,2G  89% /mnt/Win_sda1
/dev/sda6      fuseblk   237G  122G  115G  52% /mnt/Work_sda6
/dev/sda8      fuseblk   628G  616G   13G  99% /mnt/Media_sda8
overlay        overlay    30G  8,7G   20G  31% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/55667a09a0a4dd7b2652416891374801e4cad2593f4d847996867d433e21132f/merged
overlay        overlay    30G  8,7G   20G  31% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/3e5c557ffebafb4c6c721883c3aff9fb630e107ffef216446a2fa87ee0e0943a/merged
shm            tmpfs      68M     0   68M   0% /var/lib/docker/containers/62d72386e094430ae77cdc963349b25a6121286a499b7b496f669897d30da089/mounts/shm
shm            tmpfs      68M     0   68M   0% /var/lib/docker/containers/65e54b5a9cd763eca696c18145b491824d1af87e4c0126f5756668bf389a6c91/mounts/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs     827M   17k  827M   1% /run/user/1000
overlay        overlay    30G  8,7G   20G  31% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/ecdc1eb336c1f085454d79a0a2cc76ccf7ced27125695edc6a46d83d24020cb5/merged
shm            tmpfs      68M     0   68M   0% /var/lib/docker/containers/f397d33006364590ced34e0cc34eea66ee958d2a140ddee564f387594b14d55e/mounts/shm

I have disks attached :

# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sdb2 during installation
UUID=2c450ff1-cf7d-4449-a9e5-550a9f338eb8 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=85770d6f-d0c4-42f9-af2e-d261930d2c56 /boot           ext4    defaults        0       2
# /var was on /dev/sdb7 during installation
UUID=36ab8091-50e6-4022-8d5b-c79106b96bda /var            ext4    defaults        0       2
# swap was on /dev/sdb6 during installation
UUID=28ee0d89-a0cc-45ab-bb0c-aeaee8072afa none            swap    sw              0       0





/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0


# /dev/sdb2 /mnt/_windows_sdb2  ntfs-3g  defaults  0  0
/dev/sdb8 /mnt/_work_sdb8  ntfs-3g  defaults  0  0  # !
/dev/sdb7 /mnt/_linux2_sdb5 ext4 defaults 0 0

/dev/sda1 /mnt/Win_sda1  ntfs-3g  defaults  0  0
/dev/sda6 /mnt/Work_sda6  ntfs-3g  defaults  0  0   # !
/dev/sda8 /mnt/Media_sda8 ntfs-3g  defaults  0  0   # !
# /dev/sda3 /mnt/Old_linux_sda3 ntfs-3g  defaults  0  0

Thanks in advance!

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David
What exact commands did you use?
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Eekiig avatar
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Eekiig
It looks like your HDD is out of space... :-)
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Petro Gromovo avatar
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Petro Gromovo
Please look at MODIFIED BLOCK
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Pilot6 avatar
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Pilot6
There is no such thing as "Kubuntu 20"
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linux-firmware is the problematic package here because it is either not fully installed or corrupted.

Follow the below steps to fix this issue:

  1. Purge-reinstall the problematic packages:

    sudo dpkg -P linux-firmware --force-all
sudo apt install --reinstall linux-firmware
sudo apt -f install

    More likely this will work! But sometimes it returns the same error.

  2. In that case, you must manually delete it by running the following:

    sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-firmware* /tmp

    This will move all the components of the package you listed to the /tmp directory. You can later remove them if you want.

  3. Then run these commands to fix possible conflicts:

    sudo apt install aptitude
sudo aptitude install linux-firmware
sudo aptitude -f install
sudo apt clean
sudo apt autoremove
sudo aptitude update 
sudo aptitude upgrade -y

Feel free to ask me any questions in the comments.
Good Luck!

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Petro Gromovo
Thanks! I removed remove linux-firmware and upgrated, but did I lose some functionality? Seems linux-firmware is related to nvidia settings... I got : nvidia-settings ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded How can it be salved ?
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matigo

I have seen this error only once before and it was caused by a problem in cpio. Reinstalling the tool (along with gzip) resolved the issue:

sudo apt install --reinstall cpio gzip

Once complete, update apt and try the installation again.

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Eekiig
"Error 24 : Write error : cannot write compressed block"... It seems to be that kind of errors where the filesystem is read-only or the main storage running out of space....
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matigo
It's also the error one gets when trying to write to a compressed block and the tool that performs the action isn't working correctly. I never claim to have *the* answer; only *an* answer. We'll have to wait until Petro responds to see whether this is a storage issue or something else
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Eekiig
As we dont have any further informations, i've used the most common answer for this problem... I'm very excited to get an feedback from Petro... But you're absolutely right with your argumentation.
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Petro Gromovo
Please look at MODIFIED BLOCK
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**This is just wrong, cannot work, because dpkg is broken and apt is facing errors**
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