Re: Etch - Broken update failed in buffer_write
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 02:40:08 +0000 (UTC)
Dave Cannell <dcannell@freeshell.org> wrote:
> With Synaptic, while trying to update linux-image-2.6.18-6-686, I receive
> the error below
>
> E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-6-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-22etch2_i386.deb:
> failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1)
>
> The package shows as broken in Synaptic.
>
> /var shows 1.81 GiB (1.25 GiB Free) so the partition being full shouldn't
> be the problem.
I seem to recall that a full /boot can also yield such an error, but I
may be mistaken.
Celejar
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