Bug#480726: upgrade-reports: Installation of linux kernel update fails

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 08:48:49PM +0200, Robert Brusa wrote:
> Package: upgrade-reports
> Severity: normal
> 
> When trying to install the most recent kernel-image I get the error.
> E:/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-6-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch3_i386.deb: 
> fehlgeschlagen in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1)
> on this machine - which is a rather old one (700 MHz). From the date of 
> the file (24-Apr-08) I get the impression that I installed this update 
> already on some other (faster) and more often used machines. And there 
> was no problem with it. This just for your information.

This looks like a problem with insufficient disk space on your system.
Linux kernel packages tend to be very large.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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