Troubleshooting • Re: Any time I try to upgrade or install anything I get Error 1

So first questions:

• Which OS are you running?
• Which named release of it?
• How does your installation differ from a default one?

The log suggests RPiOS Bookworm but could you confirm that.

Now as for "error 1", don't read anything more into that than the thing apt called has failed.

On to your log file. There's more than one issue.

• Line 9:

  2 not fully installed or removed.

  That's not a usual state of affairs. You shouldn't have any packages in that state.
• For the first error (lines 40 to 45) it looks like apt has failed to install a new kernel or initramfs. I've no idea from the log as to why.
• For the second error block (lines 59 to 67) it appears to have failed at the same stage and for the same reason as the first.

Some suggestions:

1. Make sure you have sufficient free space on both the root and boot partitions.
2. If you're using the read only root overlay turn it off.
3. If you're mounting the boot partition read only, turn that off too.
4. Do as the log suggests and post the output from mount and cat /proc/mounts

For more, I'm afraid you'll need someone more versed in apt than I am.

Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Thu Nov 06, 2025 12:26 am

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