autopkgtest is failing on jammy with "no space left on device"

debdiff in attach can help to prevent this problem from happening (bumping up image file to 2GB).

It looks like this also needs fixing in Focal see bug 1958690, which I've marked as a duplicate of this.

This bug was fixed in the package initramfs-tools - 0.140ubuntu11

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initramfs-tools (0.140ubuntu11) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Increase image file to 2GB in autopkgtest (LP: #1958904)

 -- Andrea Righi <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Jan 2022 15:03:39 +0000

initramgs-tools in bionic doesn't have debian/tests/.

debdiff for Impish (0.140ubuntu6.1). Compile-tested in my ppa and locally tested with autopkgtest.

debdiff for Focal (0.136ubuntu6.7). Compile-tested in my ppa and locally tested with autopkgtest.

Given that this is just a test fix I've tagged the bug block-proposed so that if the new package only contains this change it won't be pushed to -updates.

@brian-murray

Unfortunately, it would mean that kernel-teams adt-matrix would still need to be hinted, as it does strict adt test runs against each kernel flavour, against packages in updates only, and enforces that every kernel flavour is tested. However, I also think that this adt test may not be relevant, given that the kernel used in the qemu image is not actually the requested kernel flavour under test from adt-matrix point of view. I will sponsor these uploads, but i guess kernel team will still need to apply adt-matrix hints to make things nice.

uploaded into unapproved queue

Historically, we have sought to avoid publishing to -updates of SRUs that only fix autopkgtests because fixing the autopkgtests does not change the behavior of the package in a way that benefits the end user and justifies the download cost.

However, between the fact that this is initramfs-tools, and the recent changes to the behavior of proposed-migration, I think it's important that an exception be made here. The initramfs-tools package is critical to how our systems boot, and we cannot afford to have regressions in test coverage of this package. If an update to the Linux kernel has the consequence that the baseline (i.e. in -updates) for initramfs-tools has regressed, this means that any future packages which trigger initramfs-tools autopkgtests will NOT have their SRUs blocked by test failures, whether or not they have introduced further regressions in initramfs-tools.

Unless we land this package in -updates, ensuring that we have a green baseline.

Hello Andrea, or anyone else affected,

Accepted initramfs-tools into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/0.136ubuntu6.7 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Andrea, or anyone else affected,

Accepted initramfs-tools into impish-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/0.140ubuntu6.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-impish to verification-done-impish. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-impish. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

I wonder if I should have included feature backports to support compressed kernel modules & coompressed firmware files https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/0.140ubuntu8

This would be actually useful, and would allow us to enable compressed kernel modules for jammy and hwe-5.15 when it lands in focal.

Autopkgtests completed successfully on both impish and focal.

This bug was fixed in the package initramfs-tools - 0.140ubuntu6.1

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initramfs-tools (0.140ubuntu6.1) impish; urgency=medium

  * Increase image file to 2GB in autopkgtest (LP: #1958904)

 -- Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <email address hidden> Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:03:17 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for initramfs-tools has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package initramfs-tools - 0.136ubuntu6.7

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initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu6.7) focal; urgency=medium

  * Increase image file to 2GB in autopkgtest (LP: #1958904)

 -- Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <email address hidden> Wed, 26 Jan 2022 18:11:24 +0100