Failed to update Netdata repository config

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netdata-updater is failing every night with the following output (rmmod: ERROR: Module intel_vpu is in use):

/etc/cron.daily/netdata-updater:
Thu Feb  6 07:07:19 AM PST 2025 : INFO: netdata-updater:  Checking if a newer version of the updater script is available.
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://repository.netdata.cloud/repos/stable/debian bookworm/ InRelease
Hit:5 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve bookworm InRelease
Hit:6 http://repository.netdata.cloud/repos/repoconfig/debian bookworm/ InRelease
Hit:7 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/ceph-squid bookworm InRelease
Hit:8 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/ceph-reef bookworm InRelease
Hit:9 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/ceph-quincy bookworm InRelease
Reading package lists...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
netdata-repo is already the newest version (4-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up intel-fw-npu (1.10.0.20241107-11729849322) ...
rmmod: ERROR: Module intel_vpu is in use
dpkg: error processing package intel-fw-npu (--configure):
installed intel-fw-npu package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
intel-fw-npu
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Thu Feb  6 07:07:21 AM PST 2025 : FATAL: netdata-updater: FAILED TO UPDATE NETDATA:  Failed to update Netdata repository config.
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/netdata-updater exited with return code 1

This is running on a proxmox host from the cron job installed by the install script.

Cron <root@pve1> test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || { cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily; }
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Hi. This is a system-level package configuration issue unrelated to Netdata’s functionality. Netdata’s update process is failing because of this underlying system package problem, not because of any issue with Netdata itself.

rmmod: ERROR: Module intel_vpu is in use
dpkg: error processing package intel-fw-npu (–configure):

The error occurs because the system is trying to update an Intel NPU firmware package (intel-fw-npu), but it can’t because the related kernel module (intel_vpu) is currently in use.

You can:

  • reboot the system or
  • manually stop any processes using the Intel VPU and then unload the module