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initramfs-tools package

  1. Bug #562312
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 562312

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Stuart (stuartneilson) wrote : Re: package initramfs-tools 0.92bubuntu71 [modified: usr/sbin/update-initramfs] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

The important bit here is apparently:

  Setting up initramfs-tools (0.92bubuntu71) ...
  update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
  lzma: Encoder error: -2147467259

which simply means that there was insufficient space on the device to write the new kernel module.

However, I tried this again using a much larger USB device and generated an entirely different error - the update-initramfs trigger attempts to stat /vmlinuz and this a a link to a file that no longer exists, so again the wireless installation fails.