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[David Gerstmann <gerstmann.david@xxxxxxxxx>]

In addition to what I said in comment #59... If what I wrote does not work for you and the other "solutions" are too complicated for your time sensitive schedules (as they are for me), then I recommend that you reinstall Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on your computer as I had to. This, I think, will clear up any "dependency" issues related to kernals. Then faithfully follow my instructions in comment # 59 above. This has worked for me so far. Occasionally the sudo apt-get process in comment # 59 seems to fail, but I've ignored those little hiccups and just tried again and once again it seems to work (fingers crossed, eyes crossed, and for Bill Canaday in comment # 57... flying fickle fingers crossed.). Until someone wiser and techier comes along,  good luck fellow Ubuntu brothers and sistas.  
 
   P.S. Please let me know how this works for you.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798414

Title:
  update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't
  enough  free space

Status in initramfs-tools:
  Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

  When generating a new initramfs there is no check for available free
  space, subsequently its possible for update-initramfs to fail due to a
  lack of free space.  This is resulting in package installation
  failures for initramfs-tools.  For example:

  Setting up initramfs-tools (0.98.8ubuntu3) ...
  update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
  Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic

  gzip: stdout: No space left on device
  E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
  update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
  dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

  WORKAROUND:

  Remove unused kernels using computer janitor or manually free space on
  your partition containing the /boot file system.

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