Today I updated one of my laptops and I was surprised to see an error message saying that there was not enough space available in /boot to install the new 6.10.3 kernel. There were two kernels already installed, so I used kernel-remover to remove the older one, and afterward the full-upgrade finished correctly. I looked in /boot and I was surprised to see that the initrd.img files were each 117+ MB in size. On two other siduction systems the initrd.img files are 36-39 MB in size, and there is no problem upgrading to a new kernel when there are already two kernels installed. System details below -- you can see that /boot is a little over 1 GB in size.
This is not a problem I have ever seen, and google is not helping find the solution.
Anyone have any idea? Thanks in advance.
System:
Kernel: 6.10.3-1-siduction-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.11 Distro: siduction 22.1.2 Masters_of_War -
kde - (202303151559)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: System76 product: Oryx Pro v: oryp8
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: System76 model: Oryx Pro v: oryp8 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: coreboot v: 2021-09-23_b9b0e89 date: 09/23/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 56.4 Wh (99.5%) condition: 56.7/70.7 Wh (80.3%)
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11800H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
cache: L2: 10 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 898 min/max: 800/4600 cores: 1: 800 2: 983 3: 1075
4: 1006 5: 800 6: 1123 7: 800 8: 800 9: 1028 10: 966 11: 800 12: 800 13: 800
14: 987 15: 800 16: 800
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GA104M [GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile / Max-Q] driver: nouveau
v: kernel
Device-3: Bison BisonCam NB Pro driver: uvcvideo type: USB
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.0 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915
resolution: 1920x1080~144Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,nouveau,swrast
platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.3 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.1.5-3
renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (TGL GT1)
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-H HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
API: ALSA v: k6.10.3-1-siduction-amd64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.2 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169
IF: enp36s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb type: USB
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: disabled
rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.36 TiB used: 65.74 GiB (4.7%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB
size: 465.76 GiB
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS100T2B0C-00PXH0
size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 58.76 GiB used: 11.99 GiB (20.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
ID-2: /boot size: 1007.9 MiB used: 266.8 MiB (26.5%) fs: ext2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-4: /home size: 388.96 GiB used: 53.49 GiB (13.8%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 60.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 5037
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 31.21 GiB used: 3.68 GiB (11.8%)
Processes: 380 Uptime: 0m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.35
dibl-oryxpro:/boot$ ls -la
total 258708
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 3 16:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Aug 3 15:57 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 297938 Jul 27 06:30 config-6.10.2-1-siduction-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 297938 Aug 3 09:04 config-6.10.3-1-siduction-amd64
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Dec 31 1969 efi
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 3 15:47 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117578526 Jul 31 12:50 initrd.img-6.10.2-1-siduction-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117578885 Aug 3 16:27 initrd.img-6.10.3-1-siduction-amd64
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Dec 1 2023 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147744 Jan 7 2024 memtest86+x64.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 148992 Jan 7 2024 memtest86+x64.efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5791904 Jul 27 06:30 System.map-6.10.2-1-siduction-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5792744 Aug 3 09:04 System.map-6.10.3-1-siduction-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8450560 Jul 27 06:30 vmlinuz-6.10.2-1-siduction-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8454656 Aug 3 09:04 vmlinuz-6.10.3-1-siduction-amd64