Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,
Steve Mazurek wrote:
I have been trying to install on etch the most recent
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 on an IBM Thinkpad T23 with a Pentium 3 and
on a Gateway desktop also running a Pentium 3 using aptitude update
&& aptitude upgrade. Every time I do this, I get the error message:
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.8-6-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-1-18etch1_i386.deb
(--unpack): failed in buffer_write (fd) (9, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb
during
'./lib/modules/2.6.18-6-686/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core.ko' : No
space left on device
I am not sure what this means (my hlinux books are not available) nor
do I know what to do about this.
You're out of drive space on the /var partition.
Run "df -h" to see how much Disk space is Free on your various
partitions; here's what my output looks like; your's will look different:
westk[@novie]:/home/westk:> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 183M 145M 29M 84% /
tmpfs 94M 0 94M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 76K 10M 1% /dev
tmpfs 94M 4.0K 94M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/hda5 3.7G 3.4G 107M 98% /usr
/dev/hda6 703M 477M 191M 72% /var
/dev/hda7 9.2G 3.5G 5.3G 40% /home
/dev/hda9 54M 4.1M 47M 9% /tmp
/dev/hda1 5.2G 2.7G 2.5G 52% /home/novie/Win98
Your /var partition is likely to be on your / partition, so if you don't
see a separate /var, look for /. You can also scan down the "Use%"
column for high numbers, like 99 or 100%.
There's a good chance that old .debs from older upgrades is eating a lot
of space.
"aptitude autoclean" will delete any old .debs (in the standard location
- /var/cache/apt/archives) that are no longer suitable for installing on
your system.
"aptitude clean" will delete all .debs (in the standard location).
If one of those commands doesn't free up enough space to do what you
need, you'll have to be more aggressive in freeing up some space.
--
Kent
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