Actually, on further investigation, the package at fault is 'iscan- data', which is third party. apparently it has some buggy hooks or something.
upon removing iscan, iscan-data, and anything else up the dependency chain, the update works. ** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New -- update-initramfs crashes with circular dependency on linux-image update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/616479 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs