Re: dist-upgrade failure
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% /
> tmpfs 253M 0 253M 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda9 66G 15G 49G 23% /home
> /dev/hda8 361M 8.1M 334M 3% /tmp
> /dev/hda5 4.6G 4.1G 313M 93% /usr
> /dev/hda6 2.8G 470M 2.2G 18% /var
> tmpfs 10M 772K 9.3M 8% /dev
>
> This just started happening and I'm not sure why. Any helpful
> suggestions will be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Steve
That's most likely because your root partition (/) is full, and it's
trying to write to the /etc directory - which is included in your root
partition.
You could either delete something you don't need on the root partition
to give yourelf some wiggle room (as previously mentioned), or you could
consider adding some disk space to the root partition by resizing it.
Looks like you have plenty of elbow room on the drive (especially in
your /home partition) to do the resizing.
You can get a better look at your overall partition layout by running
'fdisk -l /dev/hda' (as root), and you can get the output into a text
file with 'fdisk -l /dev/hda > filename'
Tom
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