Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem
Than see some documentation. E.g.
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.html
Now you have problem with disk space /boot. Later, you can have problem
with space on / or on /home.
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 17:26 +0100, gregory duchesnes wrote:
> This is not a desktop station...
>
> Dexter wrote:
>
> >Well, you have only 6,7M free on /boot device. Whole disk is partitioned
> >wery strangely. I would propose for desktop station:
> >1G /boot
> >1G swap
> >1G /var/log
> >rest /
> >Or something else, but defitely not, what you have now.
> >I would propose you to reinstall system and make bether partitioning.
> > Dexter
> >
> >On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 12:43 +0100, gregory duchesnes wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>I have a problem with apt-get when upgrading kernel-image, here is what
> >>i got :
> >>
> >># apt-get upgrade
> >>Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
> >>Construction de l'arbre des dépendances... Fait
> >>Les paquets suivants seront mis à jour :
> >> kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386
> >>1 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 0 non mis à jour.
> >>21 partiellement installés ou enlevés.
> >>Il est nécessaire de prendre 0o/14,1Mo dans les archives.
> >>Après dépaquetage, 4096o d'espace disque supplémentaires seront utilisés.
> >>Souhaitez-vous continuer ? [O/n]
> >>(Lecture de la base de données... 16439 fichiers et répertoires déjà
> >>installés.)
> >>Préparation du remplacement de kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 2.6.8-16 (en
> >>utilisant .../kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386_2.6.8-16sarge1_i386.deb) ...
> >>The directory /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-386 still exists. Continuing as directed.
> >>Dépaquetage de la mise à jour de kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 ...
> >>dpkg : erreur de traitement de
> >>/var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386_2.6.8-16sarge1_i386.deb
> >>(--unpack) :
> >> échec dans « buffer_write(fd) » (8, ret=-1) : backend dpkg-deb pendant
> >>« ./lib/modules/2.6.8-2-386/kernel/sound/isa/sb/snd-emu8000-synth.ko »:
> >>Aucun espace disponible sur le périphérique
> >>dpkg-deb: sous-processus paste tué par le signal (Relais brisé (pipe))
> >>Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub .
> >>Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst .
> >>Searching for splash image... none found, skipping...
> >>Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386
> >>Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
> >>
> >>Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
> >> /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386_2.6.8-16sarge1_i386.deb
> >>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>I'm sorry that messages are in french but i will do a quick translation
> >>of the problematic lines :
> >>
> >>dpkg : error while treating
> >>/var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386_2.6.8-16sarge1_i386.deb
> >>(--unpack) :
> >> failure in « buffer_write(fd) » (8, ret=-1) : backend dpkg-deb while «
> >>./lib/modules/2.6.8-2-386/kernel/sound/isa/sb/snd-emu8000-synth.ko »: No
> >>space left on device
> >>dpkg-deb: paste subprocces killed by signal (broken pipe)
> >>
> >>
> >>Seems like a space problem thouh here is a df -h :
> >>
> >>Sys. de fich. Tail. Occ. Disp. %Occ. Monté sur
> >>/dev/hda1 89M 58M 27M 69% /
> >>tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
> >>/dev/hda3 15M 7,3M 6,7M 53% /boot
> >>/dev/hda6 89M 4,1M 80M 5% /home
> >>/dev/hda7 449M 8,1M 417M 2% /tmp
> >>/dev/hda5 897M 184M 666M 22% /usr
> >>/dev/hda8 449M 69M 356M 17% /var
> >>/dev/hda10 449M 29M 397M 7% /var/lib/mysql
> >>/dev/hda9 449M 29M 397M 7% /var/log
> >>/dev/hda11 46G 61M 44G 1% /var/vmail
> >>
> >>Doesn't look like any of my partitions is full?
> >>
> >>I remounted /boot rw before the apt-get upgrade (as well as /usr which
> >>is remounted automatically through a pre-invoke command in apt.conf)
> >>
> >>How to solve this?
> >>Can i do the --unpack anywhere else than in the default partition? (and
> >>where does it unpack by the way?)
> >>I don't use a sound card on this computer, can i remove this module
> >>(safely and how?)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Thanks for your help
> >>
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