Iain, This 'bug has been around for a long time now and the information that is on or comes back from the forum is inadequate and in one instance rendered my computer unbootable.
In the end I moved back to Windows 7 for all my serious work and now use Ubuntu 14.04 for anything that I'm prepared to loose. I hope one day to be able to move back to Ubuntu as my main computing platform when it is as stable as Win 7. Good luck. On 10/11/15 23:43, Iain wrote: > As a very new member of the Ubuntu community can I make a couple of > observations? > > First: I understand the statement "Insufficient space in /boot" however: > when I used the instruction that is supposed to clear space [sudo apt- > get clean] it either didn't or didn't clear enough. So I thought I'd > take the direct approach. I'm an Administrator, so I loaded the Files > application and went looking, but when I found what I thought was the > /boot folder the system would not allow me to delete some older files > (looked like downloads from earlier updates). Maybe the error message > can include a solution that tells me how to delete the old files and/or > increase the space of the /boot folder? Or even where to find the /boot > folder? > > My second comment is that maybe once the installation of an update has > successfully completed then the downloaded installation files could be > deleted? > > I've tried limiting the download to smaller sections of the current > update but nothing seems to install. > > Quick update: I thought I'd take one more look at the search engine and > I found another command to remove junk from the boot (sudo apt-get > autoremove) and this tells me it removed 300MB but the install still > says it needs 30MB more than the available limit... > > How do I clean up the /boot folder? > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to initramfs-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798414 Title: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space Status in initramfs-tools: Confirmed Status in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: initramfs-tools When generating a new initramfs there is no check for available free space, subsequently its possible for update-initramfs to fail due to a lack of free space. This is resulting in package installation failures for initramfs-tools. For example: Setting up initramfs-tools (0.98.8ubuntu3) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic gzip: stdout: No space left on device E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1 update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 WORKAROUND: Remove unused kernels using computer janitor or manually free space on your partition containing the /boot file system. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/initramfs-tools/+bug/798414/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
