Re: dpkg error!! says no space left in device

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 11/30/08 22:19, raman narasimhan wrote:
> i was installing new packages into my lenny system via synaptic.. when 
> it was applying the changes, i got the following error message:
>
> *E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to 
> correct the problem.
> E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
> *
> so i tried dpkg --configure -a
>
> i got this message
> *dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
> failed to write status record about `libmng-dev' to 
> `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device
> *
> what should i do??

$ du -m

# apt-get clean

$ du -m

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