Dependency error when updating

[NoComment1105]

Hallo 👋🏼

I'm updating my kernel to 5.15.0-5.3 but am meeting dependency errors at the end of the update. I can't quite work out what's broken or if the kernel is installed successfully enough for me to be able to restart my system. My error message is bellow

Thanks :)

[Auxority]

I have the same error. Hope this can be fixed soon :)

[NoComment1105]

Yikes, at least that means it wasn't something i did to break my system :D

[Auxority]

You could try to re-install the base linux kernel, then removing the lqx kernel, reboot your system. Select the base linux kernel, install linux-lqx and linux-lqx-headers again. And reboot. That fixed it for me.

[NoComment1105]

Interesting, Ill look into doing so, thanks

[Auxority]

If you're interested, I am running arch linux. And these are the command I used:

1) Remove the lqx kernel

sudo pacman -R linux-lqx-docs linux-lqx-headers linux-lqx

2) Install the base linux kernel

sudo pacman -S linux linux-headers

3) Reboot 4) Select the base linux kernel from grub (could be a different bootloader) 5) Edit your pacman.conf

sudo nano /etc/pacman/conf

6) Add this line to the pacman.conf file

[liquorix]
Server = https://liquorix.net/archlinux/$repo/$arch

7) Install the lqx kernel

sudo pacman -S linux-lqx linux-lqx-headers

8) Reboot 9) Select the linux-lqx kernel in your bootloader

That should be it :)

If you encounter issues, you could try running these commands: Source: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-lqx/

sudo pacman-key --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 9AE4078033F8024D && sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 9AE4078033F8024D;

sudo pacman -S coreutils initramfs kmod bc cpio kmod libelf pahole python crda linux-firmware sof-firmware

[NoComment1105]

Lol using Linux Mint, but im there pretty much

[NoComment1105]

Seems that it didn't remove it properly, but it seems to work, This should still be fixed though :)

[damentz]

@NoComment1105, are any of your drives full? The error in your screenshot is that mkinitcpio fails to write to the file system.

You can check with df -h.

[NoComment1105]

Nope no full drives

[damentz]

I see, well either way, if you search for Error 24 : Write error : cannot write compressed block online, about hundreds of posts return with the problem being not enough space.

I recommend you do two things, remove older kernels (starting with sudo apt-get autoremove --purge might help), and changing your default compression from lz4 (very fast but worst compression), to xz (very slow but best compression).

Afterwards, modify your compression in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf (assuming you're Debian or Ubuntu), and change COMPRESS=lz4 to COMPRESS=xz. Then run sudo update-initramfs -k all -c to recreate all your kernel init ram disks. Your /boot partition will probably drop from 230M used to about 100M

Closing this issue since it's a system operator problem. I don't have the ability to manage your boot partition storage for you.

[NoComment1105]

Okay Thanks :)