Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Kent West wrote:
> 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.

Correction: it looks like it's your /lib partition (which is probably on 
the / partition, which may also hold the /var partition, so the *clean 
commands still may work; "df -h" should point you in the right direction).

--
Kent