Running into an issue building the 3.15.5 stable kernel on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Relevant portion of sudo make modules_install install
INSTALL /lib/firmware/edgeport/down2.fw
INSTALL /lib/firmware/edgeport/down3.bin
INSTALL /lib/firmware/whiteheat_loader.fw
INSTALL /lib/firmware/whiteheat.fw
INSTALL /lib/firmware/keyspan_pda/keyspan_pda.fw
INSTALL /lib/firmware/keyspan_pda/xircom_pgs.fw
INSTALL /lib/firmware/cpia2/stv0672_vp4.bin
INSTALL /lib/firmware/yam/1200.bin
INSTALL /lib/firmware/yam/9600.bin
DEPMOD 3.15.5
sh /home/anthony/code/linux-stable/arch/x86/boot/install.sh 3.15.5 arch/x86/boot/bzImage
System.map "/boot"
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal 3.15.5 /boot/vmlinuz-3.15.5
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms 3.15.5 /boot/vmlinuz-3.15.5
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.15.5 /boot/vmlinuz-3.15.5
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.15.5
gzip: stdout: No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.15.5 with 1.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2
Output of df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root 103G 92G 5.1G 95% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 3.8G 12K 3.8G 1% /dev
tmpfs 767M 1.5M 766M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 3.8G 38M 3.8G 1% /run/shm
none 100M 56K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sda1 228M 55M 161M 26% /boot
/home/anthony/.Private 103G 92G 5.1G 95% /home/anthony
/dev/sdb2 451G 166G 286G 37% /media/anthony/Windows7_OS
Made a gist of my kernel config: https://gist.github.com/acrognale/7d5568bec6c88cebcde0
EDIT: Fixed it. Turns out it was my tmp directory that was filling up. So, if anyone runs into this in the future, check to make sure that you have enough space on /tmp.