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I could not find a solution to my problem, so decided to ask. When I run sudo apt-get upgrade - I get errors concerning the linux-firmware and initramfs-tools

Could you help me please?

Here is what I get

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu6.2) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Setting up linux-firmware (1.187.1) ...
ln: failed to create hard link '/boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-40-generic.dpkg-bak' => '/boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-40-generic': Operation not permitted
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-40-generic
Error 24 : Write error : cannot write compressed block 
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 lz4 -9 -l 24
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-40-generic with 1.
dpkg: error processing package linux-firmware (--configure):
 installed linux-firmware package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu6.2) ...
ln: failed to create hard link '/boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-40-generic.dpkg-bak' => '/boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-40-generic': Operation not permitted
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-40-generic
Error 24 : Write error : cannot write compressed block 
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 lz4 -9 -l 24
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-40-generic with 1.
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
 installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-firmware
 initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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  • what's the output of uname -r? According to this question, the error might happen if you are running an older/newer kernel version. Please confirm that you run sudo apt update before any other apt commands - you should to have the latest list of software before trying to install, uninstall, upgrade any software. – Nmath Jul 18 '20 at 18:39
  • @Nmath thank you very much for your suggestion it actually worked. I had to delete all the older versions of my kernels, free the space on /boot and then it worked. When I run sudo apt-get upgrade I get Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. No errors anymore. Thanks again! Great community this is! – user1106901 Jul 19 '20 at 11:09

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