XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist 
 From: carnil@debian.org 
  
 Control: tags -1 + moreinfo 
  
 Hi Paul, 
  
 On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 05:48:48PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: 
 > Source: linux 
 > Version: 6.16.3-1 
 > Severity: normal 
 > 
 > Hi, 
 > 
 > Not sure if this is actionable and indeed beyond expectations, but just in 
 > case this points at a problem in the packaging. Feel free to close if I 
 just 
 > need to deal with this. 
 > 
 > I just upgraded my forky system and the upgrade failed: 
 > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.16.3+deb14-amd64 
 > zstd: error 70 : Write error : cannot write block : No space left on device 
 > E: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 
 > update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-6.16.3+deb14-amd64 with 1. 
 > run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1 
 > dpkg: error processing package linux-image-6.16.3+deb14-amd64 (-- 
 configure): 
 >  installed linux-image-6.16.3+deb14-amd64 package post-installation script 
 > subprocess returned error exit status 1 
 > Setting up linux-libc-dev (6.16.3-1) ... 
 > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-amd64: 
 >  linux-image-amd64 depends on linux-image-6.16.3+deb14-amd64 (= 6.16.3-1); 
 > however: 
 >   Package linux-image-6.16.3+deb14-amd64 is not configured yet. 
 > 
 > dpkg: error processing package linux-image-amd64 (--configure): 
 >  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured 
 > Errors were encountered while processing: 
 >  linux-image-6.16.3+deb14-amd64 
 >  linux-image-amd64 
 > Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) 
 > 
 > 
 > I don't have a big /boot system, as the default boot partition used to be 
 > (way too) small. I recall that I once enable something to only install 
 > required modules into the initrd, which helped me along until today. 
 > 
 > /boot right after upgrade: 
 > paul@toba ~ $ df -h /boot 
 > Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on 
 > /dev/nvme0n1p2  456M  281M  151M  66% /boot 
 > paul@toba ~ $ ls -al /boot/ 
 > total 273416 
 > drwxr-xr-x  5 root root      1024 Aug 30 17:32 . 
 > drwxr-xr-x 18 root root      4096 Aug 30 17:31 .. 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root    283225 Jul  3 21:01 config-6.12.35+deb13-amd64 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root    283270 Jul 16 09:13 config-6.12.38+deb13-amd64 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root    289665 Aug 24 23:29 config-6.16.3+deb14-amd64 
 > drwx------  3 root root      4096 Jan  1  1970 efi 
 > drwxr-xr-x  5 root root      1024 Aug 20 18:36 grub 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 120238850 Jul 22 19:33 
 > initrd.img-6.12.35+deb13-amd64 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 120394731 Aug 30 08:39 
 > initrd.img-6.12.38+deb13-amd64 
 > drwx------  2 root root     12288 Nov 17  2024 lost+found 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root        83 Jul  3 21:01 
 > System.map-6.12.35+deb13-amd64 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root        83 Jul 16 09:13 
 > System.map-6.12.38+deb13-amd64 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root        92 Aug 24 23:29 System.map-6.16.3+deb14- 
 amd64 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  12093376 Jul  3 21:01 vmlinuz-6.12.35+deb13-amd64 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  12097472 Jul 16 09:13 vmlinuz-6.12.38+deb13-amd64 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  13162432 Aug 24 23:29 vmlinuz-6.16.3+deb14-amd64 
 > 
 > /boot after $(sudo apt remove linux-image-6.12.35+deb13-amd64): 
 > paul@toba ~ $ df -h /boot 
 > Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on 
 > /dev/nvme0n1p2  456M  337M   95M  79% /boot 
 > paul@toba ~ $ ls -al /boot/ 
 > total 330986 
 > drwxr-xr-x  5 root root      1024 Aug 30 17:36 . 
 > drwxr-xr-x 18 root root      4096 Aug 30 17:35 .. 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root    283270 Jul 16 09:13 config-6.12.38+deb13-amd64 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root    289665 Aug 24 23:29 config-6.16.3+deb14-amd64 
 > drwx------  3 root root      4096 Jan  1  1970 efi 
 > drwxr-xr-x  5 root root      1024 Aug 30 17:36 grub 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 120394731 Aug 30 08:39 
 > initrd.img-6.12.38+deb13-amd64 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 191341702 Aug 30 17:36 initrd.img-6.16.3+deb14- 
 amd64 
 > drwx------  2 root root     12288 Nov 17  2024 lost+found 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root        83 Jul 16 09:13 
 > System.map-6.12.38+deb13-amd64 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root        92 Aug 24 23:29 System.map-6.16.3+deb14- 
 amd64 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  12097472 Jul 16 09:13 vmlinuz-6.12.38+deb13-amd64 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  13162432 Aug 24 23:29 vmlinuz-6.16.3+deb14-amd64 
 > 
 > Note the increase from 120394731 to 191341702 for the initrd. 
  
 Can you please with lsinitramfs list the contents for both and provide 
 those for comparison? 
  
 Regards, 
 Salvatore 
  
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