Unable to upgrade to latest kernel

[yilovi7876]

Hi everyone,

Updates are available for my Kubuntu 20.04 installation, but I am unable to install the latest kernel.

The error I'm getting is Package failed to install Error while installing package: cannot copy extracted data for './boot/System.map-5.4.0-60-generic' to '/boot/System.map-5.4.0-60-generic.dpkg-new'

System info: 5.4.0-59-generic #65-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 12:01:51 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linu
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H/W path Device Class Description
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system 81D1 (LENOVO_MT_81D1_BU_idea_FM_ideapad 330-15IGM)
/0 bus LNVNB161216
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/4 processor Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4100 CPU @ 1.10GHz
/0/4/6 memory 32KiB L1 cache
/0/4/7 memory 4MiB L2 cache
/0/5 memory 24KiB L1 cache
/0/23 memory 4GiB System Memory
/0/23/0 memory 4GiB SODIMM DDR4 Synchronous 2400 MHz (0.4 ns)
/0/100 bridge Gemini Lake Host Bridge
/0/100/0.3 generic Intel Corporation
/0/100/2 display UHD Graphics 605
/0/100/e multimedia Intel Corporation
/0/100/f communication Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Trusted Execution Engine Interface
/0/100/12 scsi0 storage Intel Corporation
/0/100/12/0 /dev/sda disk 500GB TOSHIBA MQ01ABF0
/0/100/12/0/1 volume 511MiB Windows FAT volume
/0/100/12/0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 732MiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/12/0/3 /dev/sda3 volume 464GiB EFI partition
/0/100/12/1 /dev/cdrom disk DVD-RW DA8AESH
/0/100/14 bridge Gemini Lake PCI Express Root Port
/0/100/14/0 enp1s0 network RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
/0/100/14.1 bridge Gemini Lake PCI Express Root Port
/0/100/14.1/0 wlp2s0 network QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
/0/100/15 bus Intel Corporation
/0/100/15/0 usb1 bus xHCI Host Controller
/0/100/15/0/2 input USB Optical Mouse
/0/100/15/0/7 multimedia EasyCamera
/0/100/15/0/8 communication Bluetooth wireless interface
/0/100/15/1 usb2 bus xHCI Host Controller
/0/100/17 generic Intel Corporation
/0/100/17.3 generic Intel Corporation
/0/100/1f bridge Intel Corporation
/0/100/1f.1 bus Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Gaussian Mixture Model
/0/1 system PnP device PNP0c02
/0/2 input PnP device PNP0303
/0/3 system PnP device PNP0c02
/0/6 system PnP device PNP0b00
/1 power SR Real Battery
/2 power OEM Define 5

Thanks in advance for any help.

[claydoh]

Your drive is probably full.

[I]Package failed to install Error while installing package: cannot copy  extracted data for './boot/System.map-5.4.0-60-generic' to  '/boot/System.map-5.4.0-60-generic.dpkg-new'[/I]

This is usually followed by a line stating this, when updating via the command line.

the command df -h will show how much space your disks have left.

[yilovi7876]

Thanks for your reply. This is the output of the command.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 1.8G 0 1.8G 0% /dev
tmpfs 376M 1.5M 375M 1% /run
/dev/mapper/vgkubuntu-root 456G 14G 419G 4% /
tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda2 705M 688M 0 100% /boot
/dev/sda1 511M 7.8M 504M 2% /boot/efi
tmpfs 376M 12K 376M 1% /run/user/1000

[claydoh]

[FONT=monospace]/dev/sda2  705M  688M     0     100% /boot[/FONT]

Yup, your /boot partition looks full
Try removing some of your excess kernels:

 sudo apt autoremove --purge

You will see how much space is freed.

Now, if you have manually installed non-standard kernels (such as those from Ubuntu mainline), you will want to uninstall some of those

If you still don't have enough room after autoremove, paste the contents of this:

dpkg -l | grep linux-image

Normally, there is not a separate partition for the /boot dir, so this sort of issue is not common. But when using drive encryption, /boot needs to be outside the encrypted disk, so a separate partition is used.

[yilovi7876]

Makes sense, as I am using drive encryption. I ran the auto purge but got this error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-image-generic : Depends: linux-image-5.4.0-60-generic but it is not installed
linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-60-generic : Depends: linux-image-5.4.0-60-generic but it is not installed or
linux-image-unsigned-5.4.0-60-generic but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

When I ran apt --fix-broken install, it gave me a disk full error. Is there a way to target the full partition specifically rather than use the more generic auto purge?