Public bug reported: Unable to upgrade the package 'linux-headers-2.6.32-45' either using Update Manager or apt-get.
Error: There are almost 3GB of free space, but apt-get says no disk space. See below for details. I attempted the usual tricks like apt-get clean, autoclean, autoremove, but it made no change. Kind Regards. $ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: linux-headers-2.6.32-45 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 10.2MB of archives. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main linux-headers-2.6.32-45 2.6.32-45.100 [10.2MB] Fetched 10.2MB in 0s (11.7MB/s) (Reading database ... 598967 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace linux-headers-2.6.32-45 2.6.32-45.99 (using .../linux-headers-2.6.32-45_2.6.32-45.100_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement linux-headers-2.6.32-45 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-45_2.6.32-45.100_all.deb (--unpack): unable to create `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-45/arch/s390/include/asm/nmi.h.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-45/arch/s390/include/asm/nmi.h'): No space left on device No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-45_2.6.32-45.100_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 9.4G 6.2G 2.8G 70% / none 2.0G 388K 2.0G 1% /dev none 2.0G 212K 2.0G 1% /dev/shm none 2.0G 360K 2.0G 1% /var/run none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /var/lock none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /lib/init/rw /dev/sda6 94G 45G 45G 51% /home ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: apt 0.7.25.3ubuntu9.14 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-45.99-generic-pae 2.6.32.60+drm33.26 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-45-generic-pae i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Nov 30 15:33:28 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: apt ** Affects: apt (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1085218 Title: upgrade to kernel 2.6.32-45 fails with "disk full error" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1085218/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs