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Bug#1076582: initramfs-tools-core: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 (No space left on device)

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Control: affects -1 firmware-nvidia-graphics

On Friday, 19 July 2024 17:56:30 CEST Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 initramfs-tools: duplicates nvidia firmware files
> 
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 04:43:47PM +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> > > In any case, the upgrade should work for any user, including when
> > > all these packages are needed.
> > 
> > The real problem seems to be the size of /boot/ ...
> 
> Not really. 

It's nice that we can *postpone* that problem a while longer.

> A large part of the problem is that initramfs explodes
> the size of the nvidia firmware.
> 
> On the root file system, in /usr/lib/firmware, the nvidia firmware
> files are 66MB (uncompressed!).
> However, the initrd.img grows from 64M to 250M (compressed!) when
> firmware-nvidia-graphics is installed. There is something seriously
> wrong here.
> 
> One of the things I've noticed:
> 
> /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/tu104/gsp is supposed to be a symlink to
> /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/tu102/gsp. However, in initrd.img, this is
> a copy of the directory; accounting for 25M on its own.
> 
> No wonder the initrd is way too large.

Nice find! Adding firmware-nvidia-graphics as affects (which hopefully
will warn users of that package of this problem)

> There are probably more cases where the symlinks are not preserved.
> This needs to be fixed in initramfs (or whatever hook script copies
> the firmware files).

There was a relatively recent upload of initramfs-tools 0.143 to 
*Experimental* and I'm curious if that would help in this case.

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Bug#1076582: initramfs-tools-core: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 (No space left on device) Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2024-07-19 13:20 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#1076582: initramfs-tools-core: mkinitramfs  failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 (No space left on device) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2024-07-19 14:50 +0200
  Bug#1076582: initramfs-tools-core: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 (No space left on device) Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-07-19 16:30 +0200
  Bug#1076582: initramfs-tools-core: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 (No space left on device) Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-07-19 16:50 +0200
    Bug#1076582: initramfs-tools-core: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 (No space left on device) Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2024-07-19 18:30 +0200
  Bug#1076582: initramfs-tools-core: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 (No space left on device) Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-07-19 18:20 +0200
  Bug#1076582: initramfs-tools-core: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 (No space left on device) Simon John <debian2@the-jedi.co.uk> - 2024-07-21 13:30 +0200
    Bug#1076582: initramfs-tools-core: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 (No space left on device) Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-07-24 11:10 +0200
  Bug#1076582: initramfs-tools-core: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 (No space left on device) Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@libero.it> - 2024-07-22 23:10 +0200
  Bug#1076582: initramfs-tools-core: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 (No space left on device) Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-07-24 15:00 +0200
  Processed: Re: Processed (with 1 error): tagging 1076539,  forcibly merging 1076582 1076539 "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2024-07-28 22:40 +0200

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