Re: [Touch-packages] [Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space

2016-05-14 Thread David Gerstmann
Agreed. This is such a large omission that I am tempted to believe it is on purpose. There are workarounds to temporarily fix the problem, but they are so complicated that a novice, such as myself, must employ great effort to find the temporary fixes. This seems to be a very bad way to promote an o

[Touch-packages] [Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space

2015-09-10 Thread David Gerstmann
This is in response to Thomas A.F. Thorne's entry # 63. Hi there, so I went ahead and tried to download bikeshed as you suggested and the download failed, and at the end this error message came up... E: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned and error code (1). I'm assuming the download failed becau

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1489566] Re: package linux-image-3.13.0-62-generic 3.13.0-62.102 failed to install/upgrade: run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1 (user note

2015-09-02 Thread David Gerstmann
Add me to the list of people with this bug. So far it has not caused any noticeable problems such as described by Eidlyn above, but it would be nice to see this bug get some attention since it persists every time I update. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu T

[Touch-packages] [Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space

2015-08-24 Thread David Gerstmann
In addition to what I said in comment #59... If what I wrote does not work for you and the other "solutions" are too complicated for your time sensitive schedules (as they are for me), then I recommend that you reinstall Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on your computer as I had to. This, I think, will clear up

[Touch-packages] [Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space

2015-08-23 Thread David Gerstmann
This "workaround" is not really feasible for a large percentage of Linux users because it assumes that we already know how to use, or possess, or even know what a computer janitor is; or know how to free space on our partitions. If your going to present a "workaround" at least do the due diligence

Re: [Touch-packages] [Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space

2015-08-14 Thread David Gerstmann
Hello Alan Burgess, my name is David. The easiest way that I have found to deal with this problem is to go into your Terminal and type in the following in this order (I'll try to be as specific as possible). sudo apt-get autoclean (that's exactly how it should look, then press enter), next...

Re: [Touch-packages] [Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space

2015-05-23 Thread David Gerstmann
Please advise as to what computer janitor program we should download that would be effective against this bug. Sent from my MetroPCS 4G Wireless Phone Original message From: Peter Ruibal Date:05/23/2015 1:02 AM (GMT-08:00) To: gerstmann.da...@gmail.com Cc: Subject: [Bug 7