[Bug 2034688] Re: installation of kernel headers fail with "Read-only file system" error

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Milestone: None => ubuntu-25.04-beta

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Title:
installation of kernel headers fail with "Read-only file system" error

Status in ubuntu-desktop-installer:
Won't Fix
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
In Progress

Bug description:
Mantic 20230907

Installation of packages that ship files in /lib/modules or
/lib/firmware are expected to fail, so their installation must be
prevented.

For instance:

$ apt install linux-headers-generic-6.3.0-7
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
linux-headers-6.3.0-7 is already the newest version (6.3.0-7.7).
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-headers-6.3.0-7-generic
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
51 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/3,667 kB of archives.
After this operation, 27.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 132615 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-headers-6.3.0-7-generic_6.3.0-7.7_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-headers-6.3.0-7-generic (6.3.0-7.7) over (6.3.0-7.7) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-6.3.0-7-generic_6.3.0-7.7_amd64.deb (--unpack):
error creating symbolic link './lib/modules/6.3.0-7-generic/build': Read-only file system
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
unable to remove newly-extracted version of '/lib/modules/6.3.0-7-generic/build': Read-only file system
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-6.3.0-7-generic_6.3.0-7.7_amd64.deb

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