Installation of kernel-default-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1.x86_64 failed.

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Hi there!
Today, I wanted to update my system (openSuse Leap 15.4), but installation of kernel-default-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1.x86_64 failed.

adrian@kepler:~> sudo zypper up  
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

The following 8 package updates will NOT be installed:
  libavcodec58_134 libavfilter7_110 libavformat58_76 libavresample4_0 libavutil56_70 libpostproc55_9
  libswresample3_9 libswscale5_9

The following package is going to be upgraded:
  kernel-macros

The following 7 NEW packages are going to be installed:
  kernel-default-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1 kernel-default-devel-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1
  kernel-default-extra-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1 kernel-default-optional-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1
  kernel-devel-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1 kernel-source-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1
  kernel-syms-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1

The following package requires a system reboot:
  kernel-default-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1

1 package to upgrade, 7 new.
Overall download size: 0 B. Already cached: 346.3 MiB. After the operation, additional 1.2 GiB will
be used.

    Note: System reboot required.
**Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): **y
In cache kernel-default-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1.x86_64.rpm      (1/8), 102.8 MiB (191.4 MiB unpacked)
In cache kernel-macros-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1.noarch.rpm       (2/8),   6.9 MiB ( 26.5 KiB unpacked)
In cache kernel-default-extra-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1.x86_64.rpm
                                                               (3/8),  35.2 MiB ( 27.7 MiB unpacked)
In cache kernel-devel-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1.noarch.rpm        (4/8),  20.7 MiB ( 58.0 MiB unpacked)
In cache kernel-default-optional-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1.x86_64.rpm
                                                               (5/8),  20.1 MiB ( 12.9 MiB unpacked)
In cache kernel-source-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1.noarch.rpm       (6/8), 143.7 MiB (967.3 MiB unpacked)
In cache kernel-default-devel-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1.x86_64.rpm
                                                               (7/8),  10.0 MiB (  4.7 MiB unpacked)
In cache kernel-syms-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1.x86_64.rpm         (8/8),   6.9 MiB (  345   B unpacked)

Checking for file conflicts: .................................................................[done]
        installing package kernel-default-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1.x86_64 needs 14MB on the /boot file
system                                                                                              
(1/8) Installing: kernel-default-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1.x86_64 ..............................[error]
Installation of kernel-default-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1.x86_64 failed:
Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: Command exited with status 1.                          
**Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): a**
Warning: %posttrans scripts skipped while aborting:
    kernel-default-5.14.21-150400.24.18.1.x86_64.rpm

Problem occurred during or after installation or removal of packages:
Installation has been aborted as directed.                                                          
Please see the above error message for a hint.

I can read this package needs 14MB on /boot, and I have 113MB available:

adrian@kepler:~> df -h /boot
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1       244M  115M  113M  51% /boot

I don’t have an idea why this package installation fails.

Please, can somebody help me?
Thank you in advance.

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It needs 14M more than what is available. Why is your /boot only 244M? Do you have more than one kernel currently installed? If yes, uninstall the oldest to make room. If you only have one currently, then you’ll need to create more space on sda1, or abandon use of a separate /boot filesystem, hosting kernels, initrds and boot files on the / filesystem instead.

If you need to take the abandon route, first unmount /dev/sda1. Then mount it on /mnt. From there you can copy all files to /boot. Next remove the fstab entry for sda1. If Grub is installed on sda1, then it will need to be reinstalled. After that you should be able to reboot and have plenty space for more kernels and initrds.

244M is fine for an ESP partition, but marginal for a /boot partition. Kernels and initrds have turned into monsters over the years.

If all the above isn’t enough help to get you going, report back including input+output from the following (enclosed in code tags, copied & pasted without editing or embellishment):

sudo parted -l
lsblk -f
cat /etc/fstab
ls -Gg /boot/
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You may want to consider re-partitioning. All my openSUSE installations now have:

**erlangen:~ #** fdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1 
**Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 476.94 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors**
Disk model: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB                
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes 
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes 
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes 
Disklabel type: gpt 
Disk identifier: A84F222E-0177-499B-A7EA-BDA6F31E2196 

**Device        **** Start****       End****   Sectors****  Size****Type**
/dev/nvme0n1p1   2048     206847     204800   100M EFI System 
/dev/nvme0n1p2 206848 1000214527 1000007680 476.8G Linux filesystem 
**erlangen:~ #**

**erlangen:~ #** lsblk -f /dev/nvme0n1 
NAME        FSTYPE FSVER LABEL                UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS 
nvme0n1                                                                                            
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat   FAT16                      6DEC-64F9                              97.7M     2% /boot/efi 
└─nvme0n1p2 btrfs        tumbleweed-nvme0n1p2 e7ad401f-4f60-42ff-a07e-f54372bc1dbc  331.4G    30% /var 
                                                                                                  /usr/local 
                                                                                                  /root 
                                                                                                  /srv 
                                                                                                  /opt 
                                                                                                  /home 
                                                                                                  /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi 
                                                                                                  /boot/grub2/i386-pc 
                                                                                                  /.snapshots 
                                                                                                  / 
**erlangen:~ #**

Maintenance is down to a minimum. Updates and upgrades are now virtually hassle-free.

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Thank you, very much.
I reinstalled OpenSuse with 1GB for /boot partition.

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Nice that you seem to have solved this, but I see you started this with telling you wanted to update using zypper dup. Leap 15.4 is NOT Tumbleweed and zypper dup is not the correct way of updating Leap. You should either use zypper patch (to restrict to the bare official openSUSE Update repos), or zypper up (which will do the same as zypper patch + installing newer versions of packages you have on other enabled repos).

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I wanted to update using zypper up!
Please, reas the first post.
Thanks, anyway.

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I apologize. I misread somewhere or did some other sutpid thing with my memory :shame: