Subj : Re: update-initramfs and no space left on device.
To   : All
From : Chris Elvidge
Date : Thu Jul 11 2024 19:58:30

On 11/07/2024 at 18:37, mm0fmf wrote:
> Ah the joy of patch-Tuesday. Or patch-Thursday in my case. So assorted
> Windows machines updated I thought I'd better check some Linux machines.
> The other week a colleague texted me and pointed out a nasty SSH
> regression being exploited. So I sat in Lyon Airport waiting for the
> gate to be announced and updated my Pi ZeroW gateway and some VMs. I
> just did the SSH updates. It's cool being able to control your machines
> from a distance but using the laptop and a phone with roaming data is
> asking for something to take you offline when you don't want. Today was
> time to catch up with other updates....
>
> All was fine apart from the Pi Zero W which gave an error when running
> update-initramfs claiming there was no space on the device when doing
>
> "update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.6.31+rpt-rpi-v7l"
>
> There was plenty of space on the device so I tried again. No luck.
> Various ideas tried but it failed at the same place every time. I pulled
> out another SDcard, wrote the image to it, put in the Pi, booted and
> then did an update and upgrade. It failed again at the same place. So it
> wasn't the SDcard that was misbehaving. I flailed about miserably
> wondering what it was till I found this webpage.
>
> https://hillenius.net/post/nospaceleft/
>
> I followed that and sure enough, it fixed everything. What I don't yet
> understand is what I had done to get to this place. And if it's just
> started for me, are other people going to find themselves in the same
> situation real soon now?
>
> I run '2024-03-15-raspios-bookworm-armhf-lite.img' with a few tweaks to
> place logs etc. on the ram disk and I've been running apt update etc. on
> that since end of May. Whatever, after today's update it was not going
> to work unless I followed those changes to initramfs-tools.
>
> Hopefully this may help the next Pi user who gets bitten by this.
>
>

We've known about this for ages: change MODULES=most to MODULES=dep in
/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf



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Chris Elvidge, England
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