Package: raspi-firmware
Severity: serious
Tags: patch
Hi,
if /boot/firmware is (nearly) full, raspi-firmware prevents (!)
uninstalling a kernel image, because it still insists on copying stuff
to /boot/firmware upon kernel image removal.
An additional condition might be that another kernel image is present
and not fully configured for the same reason (not enough
diskspace). It's unlcear for me, if this additional condition is
required for this issue to reproduce.
In general you can run into such an issue within months if you have
automatic updates enabled and don't clear up old kernels
automatically. (And yes, in my case the VFAT partition is rather small
as this is a very old installation.
# df -h /boot/firmware/
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p1 121M 121M 2.0K 100% /boot/firmware
# dpkg --purge linux-image-6.1.0-1-armmp-lpae
(Reading database ... 350731 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-image-6.1.0-1-armmp-lpae (6.1.4-1) ...
/etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools:
update-initramfs: Deleting /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-1-armmp-lpae
/etc/kernel/postrm.d/z50-raspi-firmware:
cp: error writing '/boot/firmware/vmlinuz-6.1.0-2-armmp-lpae': No space left
on device
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postrm.d/z50-raspi-firmware exited with return code 1
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-6.1.0-1-armmp-lpae (--purge):
installed linux-image-6.1.0-1-armmp-lpae package post-removal script
subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-6.1.0-1-armmp-lpae
# ls -l /boot/firmware/{initrd.img,vmlinuz}-*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25319457 Oct 13 08:32
/boot/firmware/initrd.img-5.19.0-2-armmp-lpae
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25268327 Dec 7 08:29
/boot/firmware/initrd.img-6.0.0-5-armmp-lpae
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25266000 Jan 18 08:21
/boot/firmware/initrd.img-6.0.0-6-armmp-lpae
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5210624 Oct 24 00:52
/boot/firmware/vmlinuz-5.19.0-2-armmp-lpae
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5267968 Dec 7 08:29
/boot/firmware/vmlinuz-6.0.0-5-armmp-lpae
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5267968 Dec 27 08:05
/boot/firmware/vmlinuz-6.0.0-6-armmp-lpae
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5370368 Jan 18 08:21
/boot/firmware/vmlinuz-6.1.0-1-armmp-lpae
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3817472 Mar 1 05:31
/boot/firmware/vmlinuz-6.1.0-2-armmp-lpae
# dpkg --audit
The following packages have been unpacked but not yet configured.
They must be configured using dpkg --configure or the configure
menu option in dselect for them to work:
linux-headers-armmp-lpae Header files for Linux armmp-lpae configuration
(meta
linux-image-armmp-lpae Linux for ARMv7 multiplatform compatible SoCs
supportin
The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems
configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using
dpkg --configure <package> or the configure menu option in dselect:
initramfs-tools generic modular initramfs generator (automation)
linux-headers-6.1.0-2-armmp-lpae Header files for Linux 6.1.0-2-armmp-lpae
linux-image-6.1.0-2-armmp-lpae Linux 6.1 for ARMv7 multiplatform compatible
So
raspi-firmware Raspberry Pi family GPU firmware and bootloaders
The following packages are only half installed, due to problems during
installation. The installation can probably be completed by retrying it;
the packages can be removed using dselect or dpkg --remove:
linux-image-6.1.0-1-armmp-lpae Linux 6.1 for ARMv7 multiplatform compatible
So
In the end, this also causes apt to abort rather early and not upgrade
or install anything anymore since then. This is also the reason why only
outdated kernel are (partially) installed.
So please stop copying stuff to /boot/firmware on kernel image removal
or purging. There will be an occasion for that at a later time anyway.
A patch (without the proper indentation probably wanted for readability)
which seems to have helped for me:
diff --git a/kernel/postinst.d/z50-raspi-firmware
b/kernel/postinst.d/z50-raspi-firmware
index 1d3ae16..d898847 100755
--- a/kernel/postinst.d/z50-raspi-firmware
+++ b/kernel/postinst.d/z50-raspi-firmware
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ else
dtb_path="/usr/lib/linux-image-${latest_kernel#/boot/vmlinuz-}"
fi
+if [ "$1" != "remove" ]; then
if [ "$KERNEL" = "auto" ] ; then
for dtb in "${dtb_path}"/bcm*.dtb; do
[ -e "${dtb}" ] || continue
@@ -128,6 +129,7 @@ if [ "$KERNEL" = "auto" ] ; then
cp "$latest_kernel" /boot/firmware/
cp "$latest_initrd" /boot/firmware/
fi
+fi
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'),
(500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1,
'buildd-experimental')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: armhf
Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-5-armmp-lpae (SMP)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
