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I was running sudo apt dist-upgrade on my Ubuntu Server 21.10 machine in preparation for upgrading to the new 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish, but unfortunately I'm hitting an error installing the linux-headers-5.13.0-40 package.

Even stranger, the error is different every time! Here are the error messages I've seen so far:

zstd: ../lib/compress/zstd_opt.c:651: ZSTD_insertBtAndGetAllMatches: Assertion `memcmp(match, ip, matchLength) == 0' failed.
Caught SIGABRT signal, printing stack:
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(pthread_kill+0xf8) [0x7fb57eb10828]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(raise+0x16) [0x7fb57eabc476]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(abort+0xd7) [0x7fb57eaa27b7]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x286db) [0x7fb57eaa26db]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x39e26) [0x7fb57eab3e26]
zstd(+0x5c34e) [0x55b92341d34e]
zstd(+0x10d8b) [0x55b9233d1d8b]
zstd(+0x10e86) [0x55b9233d1e86]
zstd(+0x1281a) [0x55b9233d381a]
zstd(+0x6aeb9) [0x55b92342beb9]
zstd(+0xa539) [0x55b9233cb539]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x94947) [0x7fb57eb0e947]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(clone+0x44) [0x7fb57eb9ea44]
Aborted (core dumped)
E: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -19 -T0 134

zstd: ../lib/compress/zstd_opt.c:646: ZSTD_insertBtAndGetAllMatches: Assertion `curr > matchIndex' failed.
Caught SIGABRT signal, printing stack:
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(pthread_kill+0xf8) [0x7fa3d02ac828]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(raise+0x16) [0x7fa3d0258476]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(abort+0xd7) [0x7fa3d023e7b7]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x286db) [0x7fa3d023e6db]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x39e26) [0x7fa3d024fe26]
zstd(+0x5c310) [0x55eab6030310]
zstd(+0x10d8b) [0x55eab5fe4d8b]
zstd(+0x10e86) [0x55eab5fe4e86]
zstd(+0x1281a) [0x55eab5fe681a]
zstd(+0x6aeb9) [0x55eab603eeb9]
zstd(+0xa539) [0x55eab5fde539]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x94947) [0x7fa3d02aa947]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(clone+0x44) [0x7fa3d033aa44]
Aborted (core dumped)
E: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -19 -T0 134

It flip flops randomly between these 2 errors. They both seem to be related to zstd, so I tried sudo apt install --reinstall zstd, but this does not appear to have helped.

If I can't install this package update, I can't upgrade to 22.04. System information:

  • uname -a: Linux SERVER_NAME 5.13.0-41-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 14 20:06:04 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
  • RAM: 32GB DDR4
  • OS: Ubuntu 21.10

Can anyone help here please?

starbeamrainbowlabs
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  • try removing some old kernels from /boot, you might not have enough space there for mkinitramfs to finish, see https://askubuntu.com/questions/1328459/ubuntu-20-04-linux-firmware-install-error-mkinitramfs-failure – Esther May 30 '22 at 17:02
  • alternatively you can try this https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2469034&p=14067672 , it seems to be a memory error – Esther May 30 '22 at 17:03
  • /boot was only 16% used of 976M, so it's unlikely that was the issue? I booted into recovery mode on the old kernel and then did sudo apt autoremove, and this appeared to fix it. To ensure it doesn't happen again, I've switch from zstd to gzip in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf as suggested there. Thanks! – starbeamrainbowlabs May 31 '22 at 01:40

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