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Spare me as this is the first question I ever post in here.

So I tried to update on Ubuntu 22.04 using the command line and everything was fine until I got the error E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Here:

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.140ubuntu13) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-27-lowlatency
I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda1
I: (UUID=d0783d7d-a3db-4dbb-a784-8b92c1aa4355)
I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
zstd: error 25 : Write error : No space left on device (cannot write compressed block)
E: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -1 -T0 25 update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-27-lowlatency 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 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) <

So, I really have no what is going on. The boot partition still has space in it and as far as I can see I can't install anything after I sudo apt update and then tried the sudo apt upgrade.

It is only recently that I started using Linux and just began using Lubuntu 22.04.

Thanks in advance

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  • Ok so, I purged initramfs-tools Everything is "fine" I guess I'm going to find out what happens next when I turn the laptop off and then turn it back on. Oh boy, I really do like Linux but...
    – ArSa Cuevas
    May 6, 2022 at 9:31
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    Your output says Write error : No space left on device. Did you investigate that?
    – user535733
    May 6, 2022 at 14:04
  • Related: askubuntu.com/questions/1293685/…
    – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com
    Dec 26, 2022 at 10:11

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It may be the case your /boot directory doesn't have enough space, although not full, because of old kernels. Please, try deleting old packages:

sudo apt autoremove

I had this problem and it solved for me. This thread on the Ubuntu Forums dealt with a similar issue, if not the same.

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  • This was the case for me after upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04LTS to 22.04LTS: Although I only had 2 kernels there, the /boot partition was quite small, so not enough for 3 kernels (on my system 22.04LTS has significantly larger initrd files). Running apt upgrade or apt-get upgrade when the initrd file needed to be rebuilt (from earlier failed runs) was trying to create - temporarily - an additional initrd file which would later replace one of the existing initrd files. My quick fix was to move the not-in-use initrd file to (say) /root, perform the upgrade, then move it back.
    – Andrew Richards
    Sep 13, 2022 at 17:54
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After an apt update and apt upgrade, I had possible missing firmware issues, so I followed this guide.

Then I ran into this error:

ubuntu pk-client-error-quark: Error while installing package: installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 (313)

So I did the following, thanks to both @lucasresck and @Ciro Santilli's, as their answers helped.

sudo apt autoremove

and

zfs list -t snapshot -r  | grep auto | cut -f1 -d' ' | xargs -n 1 sudo zfs destroy

Then, I continued with the guide, and my problem was resolved.

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The magic command is:

zfs list -t snapshot -r  | grep auto | cut -f1 -d' ' | xargs -n 1 sudo zfs destroy

from Out of space on boot zpool and cant run updates anymore Ubuntu REALLY needs to fix this stuff.

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