Bug#201523: /usr/bin/apt-get: no disk space not reported
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/apt-get
This message makes it look like there is something wrong with the
package and never reveals the problem it /var doesn't have enough disk
space.
# apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.21-1-k7
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
kernel-image-2.4.21-1-k7
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 677 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/10.9MB of archives. After unpacking 29.6MB will be used.
(Reading database ... 218349 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.21-1-k7 (from .../kernel-image-2.4.21-1-k7_2.4.21-1_i386.deb) ...
You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version 2.4.21-1-k7)
This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to use
initrd. (An initrd image is a kernel image that expects to use an INITial
Ram Disk to mount a minimal root file system into RAM and use that for
booting).
As a reminder, in order to configure lilo, you need to
add an 'initrd=/initrd.img' to the image=/vmlinuz
stanza of your /etc/lilo.conf
I repeat, You need to configure your boot loader. If you have already done
so, and you wish to get rid of this message, please put
`do_initrd = Yes'
in /etc/kernel-img.conf. Note that this is optional, but if you do not,
you'll continue to see this message whenever you install a kernel
image using initrd.
Do you want to stop now? [Y/n]
Ok, Aborting
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.4.21-1-k7_2.4.21-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.4.21-1-k7_2.4.21-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
OK, if it is a dpkg bug, please reassign this bug there.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.20-k7 #1 Tue Jan 14 00:29:06 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library
-- no debconf information
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