dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

[John Bleichert <syborg@earthlink.net>]

Hello All,

As of a few days ago I keep getting errors similar to the following when 
running aptitude upgrade:

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dpkg: error processing archive 
/var/cache/apt/archives/cups-server-common_1.7.5-5_all.deb (--unpack):
 unable to create 
`/usr/share/cups/templates/ru/set-printer-options-header.tmpl.dpkg-new' 
(while processing 
`./usr/share/cups/templates/ru/set-printer-options-header.tmpl'): No 
space left on device
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
----

I've gotten strange errors like this with /tmp too outside of upgrades.

I've got arseloads of space available on all my mount points:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1       106G   31G   70G  31% /
udev             10M     0   10M   0% /dev
tmpfs           1.6G  972K  1.6G   1% /run
tmpfs           5.0M  8.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           4.1G   34M  4.1G   1% /run/shm
/dev/sdb1       459G  258G  178G  60% /data
/dev/sdc1       962G  256G  658G  28% /localbu
/dev/sdc2       436G   71M  414G   1% /remotebu
/dev/sdc3       437G  116G  299G  28% /music
cgroup           12K     0   12K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           1.6G   12K  1.6G   1% /run/user/1000
tmpfs           1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/0


And now, of course, there are dependency issues all over the place. Any 
suggestions on how how to sort this out? I can provide a great deal more 
info.

jessie/sid

Thanks,

John

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John Bleichert    -    syborg@earthlink.net
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