Re: dist-upgrade failure

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Steven Van Cleave wrote:

>On my Sarge (stable), 2.6.8-2-686, $ 'apt-get dist-upgrade' produces the
>following error text:
>
>  
>
>>ldconfig:  Writing of cache data failed
>>dpkg: error processing zlib1g (--configure):
>>subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>>Errors were encountered while processing: zlib1g
>>    
>>
>
>I've done a fairly thorough search of solution sources without success.
> Running df yields:
>
>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda1             250M  250M     0 100% /
>  
>
It's almost certainly because you're out of space on your root partition.

If you have any old kernels installed that you no longer need, you might
try "rm -rf"'ing the corresponding directory in "/lib/modules" to free
up some space.

-- 
Kent