Error message on update & upgrade [Solved]

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I am getting the following error after a suggested system update & upgrade:

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dpkg: error processing package linux-image-5.10.0-13-amd64 (--configure):
 installed linux-image-5.10.0-13-amd64 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-amd64:
 linux-image-amd64 depends on linux-image-5.10.0-13-amd64 (= 5.10.106-1); however:
  Package linux-image-5.10.0-13-amd64 is not configured yet.

I have attempted:

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sudo apt --fix-missing update
sudo apt update

sudo dpkg --configure -a

These haven't worked and I'm getting out of my depth dealing with kernels. What should I be doing? TIA

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System:
  Kernel: 5.10.0-12-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.10.0-12-amd64 
  root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 7 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: MX-21_KDE_x64 Wildflower October 20  2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: System76 product: Serval Professional v: serp7 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: System76 model: Serval Professional v: serp7 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: 4.6.4 date: 08/09/2011 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 20.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 20.4/77.0 Wh (26.6%) 
  volts: 14.8 min: 14.8 model: Clevo CO. X51 type: Li-ion serial: N/A 
  status: Full 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-2860QM bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Sandy Bridge family: 6 model-id: 2A (42) stepping: 7 
  microcode: 2F cache: L2: 8 MiB 
  flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 39908 
  Speed: 950 MHz min/max: 800/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 950 2: 888 
  3: 1401 4: 1096 5: 1152 6: 1025 7: 881 8: 903 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, 
  SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, 
  STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GF116M [GeForce GT 560M] vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK 
  driver: nouveau v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1251 
  class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: Acer BisonCam NB Pro type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  bus-ID: 3-1.6:4 chip-ID: 5986:0308 class-ID: 0e02 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
  loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
  s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
  Monitor-1: LVDS-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 
  size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5") 
  OpenGL: renderer: NVCF v: 4.3 Mesa 21.2.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio 
  vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 
  chip-ID: 8086:1c20 class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GF116 High Definition Audio vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0bee 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.0-12-amd64 running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: JMicron JMC250 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK driver: jme v: 1.0.8 port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 
  chip-ID: 197b:0250 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl 
  port: d000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:08b1 class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 4.09 TiB used: 731.95 GiB (17.5%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST95005620AS 
  size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B 
  speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: SD28 
  temp: 44 C scheme: MBR 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: Western Digital 
  model: WD My Book 1235 size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B 
  logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1005 scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 41.14 GiB size: 40.19 GiB (97.71%) 
  used: 11.97 GiB (29.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 253:0 
  mapped: root.fsm 
  ID-2: /boot raw-size: 512 MiB size: 487.2 MiB (95.16%) 
  used: 431.7 MiB (88.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 416.09 GiB size: 408.48 GiB (98.17%) 
  used: 36.39 GiB (8.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 253:1 
  mapped: 1.home.fsm 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.98 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
  priority: -2 dev: /dev/dm-2 maj-min: 253:2 mapped: swap 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 66.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 66.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 2491 lib: 1410 flatpak: 0 
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
  1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
  2: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
Info:
  Processes: 273 Uptime: 43m wakeups: 2 Memory: 31.34 GiB 
  used: 1.77 GiB (5.7%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: bash 
  default: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: quick-system-info-mx inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: BIOS (legacy, CSM, MBR)

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This might be relevant:

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gzip: stdout: No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure gzip 1
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-12-amd64 with 1.

[Adrian]

Yes, see what other kernels you have in /boot, you might want to remove some extra ones (make sure you don't remove the current one)

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ID-2: /boot raw-size: 512 MiB size: 487.2 MiB (95.16%) 
  used: 431.7 MiB (88.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 

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@Adrian - Thank you! That was exactly the problem; too many old kernels & configuration files cluttering up /boot & grub. Once removed, all is as it should be.

As an aside, am I remembering correctly that MX Linux used to purge unneeded kernels in the past? Or am I thinking of a former OS?

[operadude]

Suffering the same issue.
Here are my stats:

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Snapshot created on: 20211215_1407
System:    Kernel: 5.10.0-12-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.10.0-12-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.5 info: plank wm: kwin_x11 vt: 7 dm: SDDM 
           Distro: MX-21_KDE_x64 Wildflower October 20  2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: H270-HD3 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Gigabyte model: H270-HD3-CF v: x.x serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: F5 date: 04/24/2017 
Battery:   Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse PID:0080 serial: N/A charge: 55% (should be ignored) 
           rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-7100 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) 
           stepping: 9 microcode: EA cache: L2: 3 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 31199 
           Speed: 3324 MHz min/max: 800/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3324 2: 3394 3: 3461 4: 3579 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Oland PRO [Radeon R7 240/340] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: radeon 
           v: kernel alternate: amdgpu bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:6613 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: HD WEBCAM NexiGo N660 FHD Webcam type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-10:6 
           chip-ID: 1d6c:1278 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
           Monitor-1: HDMI-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 305 size: 160x90mm (6.3x3.5") diag: 184mm (7.2") 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD OLAND (DRM 2.50.0 5.10.0-12-amd64 LLVM 12.0.1) v: 4.5 Mesa 21.2.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 
           chip-ID: 8086:a2f0 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: AMD Oland/Hainan/Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7000 Series] vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aab0 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-3: HD WEBCAM NexiGo N660 FHD Webcam type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-10:6 
           chip-ID: 1d6c:1278 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter> 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.0-12-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 00:1f.6 
           chip-ID: 8086:15b8 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 7.74 TiB used: 51.62 GiB (0.7%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB block-size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1B2QEXE7 temp: 23.9 C 
           scheme: GPT 
           ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 model: SATA SSD size: 111.79 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B 
           speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 61.3 scheme: GPT 
           ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37120G size: 111.79 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
           logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 61K1 scheme: MBR 
           ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Seagate model: ST3000DM001-1ER166 size: 2.73 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B 
           logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: CC25 scheme: GPT 
           ID-5: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA050 size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B 
           logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: A750 scheme: GPT 
           ID-6: /dev/sde maj-min: 8:64 vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000AADS-00S9B0 size: 465.76 GiB block-size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 0A01 scheme: GPT 
           ID-7: /dev/sdk maj-min: 8:160 type: USB vendor: Seagate model: Expansion Desk size: 3.64 TiB block-size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 4096 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 0739 scheme: MBR 
           ID-8: /dev/sdl maj-min: 8:176 type: USB model: Storage Device size: 7.42 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
           logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: N/A rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR 
           SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
           ID-9: /dev/sdm maj-min: 8:192 type: USB model: Storage Device size: 7.4 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
           logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: N/A rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR 
           SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
           ID-10: /dev/sdn maj-min: 8:208 type: USB model: Mass Storage Device size: 3.69 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
           logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR 
           SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 20.98 GiB size: 20.49 GiB (97.63%) used: 12.32 GiB (60.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 253:0 
           mapped: root.fsm 
           ID-2: /boot raw-size: 512 MiB size: 487.2 MiB (95.16%) used: 433.5 MiB (89.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 
           maj-min: 259:5 
           ID-3: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 1.3 MiB (0.5%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 
           maj-min: 259:1 
           ID-4: /home raw-size: 20.98 GiB size: 20.49 GiB (97.63%) used: 9.13 GiB (44.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1 
           maj-min: 253:1 mapped: 1.home.fsm 
Swap:      Alert: No swap data was found. 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: radeon temp: 32.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 2826 lib: 1410 flatpak: 0 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.linux.org.tr/mx/repo/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           2: deb http://ftp.linux.org.tr/mx/repo/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
Info:      Processes: 288 Uptime: 3h 6m wakeups: 3 Memory: 15.59 GiB used: 3.67 GiB (23.6%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 
           default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 
           running-in: quick-system-info-mx inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: UEFI

Wondering exactly what to delete.
@Adrian :

Here's an image of what I have in my (KDE) boot partition:
[img]file:///media/opera-dude/Data1/Pictures/boot_Kde_Partition.png[/img]
Not sure if this image actually inserted or works properly, so here's another try:
https://imgur.com/a/XEcPZf3

Basically, should I remove ALL files related to the old images?
e.g. "config", ".img", "system.map", and "vmlinuz" files?

Of course, keeping the latest one of all of those related files.

So, I'm asking what's the best practice/procedure here?

Thanks for any help (to all).

[Adrian]

You don't remove them by hand just uninstall all the linux-images-5.10.0-*** except for the ones that you use (also the linux-headers related to those) use either Synaptic, PackageInstaller or apt from CLI.

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If I understand correctly, you should keep your current linux-images and current linux-headers, the previous linux-images & linux-headers, plus any linux-images & linux-headers needed for special circumstances (eg, to run certain applications requiring an older kernel).

You can find your current kernel in CLI by:

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uname -r

I used Synaptic to search for linux-images & linux-headers and completely removed all but my current & last previous -images & -headers to purge the configuration files also.

Then I updated grub with:

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sudo update-grub

Then rebooted.

[operadude]

Thanks to:
@Adrian , and @AltTabDelete !
Will get on it and report back.

[operadude]

Thanks again to both @Adrian, and @AltTabDelete !

Looks like we have success: before following your instructions, my /boot folder had only 17.9MB free, and after uninstalling the old images and headers (via MX Package Installer, a.k.a MXPI, under the "Stable Repo" tab), I now have 107.2MB free, and, most importantly, at boot, my kernel/image is now running the latest, 5.10.0-13-amd64.

So...Kudos to both of you!!!

One remaining question: I see in my /boot folder that there still exists a couple of old images, that did NOT show-up on the Stable Repo MXPI list (neither un-greyed-out, nor greyed-out). These are: initrd.img-5.10.09-amd64, and, initrd.img-5.10.09-amd64.old.dkms

I'm assuming that since they were not in the package manager list to uninstall, that I should leave the alone.

I'm also assuming that my current 107.2MB of free space on /boot is sufficient.

Please let me know if all is OK with this, or if I should go to greater lengths to attempt an uninstall of those old images (the 5.10.09 ones).

Thanks again.

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In my case, I removed both linux-image & linux-header 5.10.09 & configuration files; it hasn't seemed to affect my system at all. But, YMMV!