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TheCool
January 8th, 2005, 05:38 PM
While trying to make upgrades to my system, Synaptic keeps saying that I am out of space.

Synaptic paste

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 62963 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace linux-image-2.6.8.1-3-386 2.6.8.1-16 (using .../linux-image-2.6.8.1-3-386_2.6.8.1-16.1_i386.deb) ...
The directory /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-3-386 still exists. Continuing as directed.
Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.8.1-3-386 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.8.1-3-386_2.6.8.1-16.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
failed in buffer_write(fd) (8, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./lib/modules/2.6.8.1-3-386/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko': No space left on device
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub .
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst .
Searching for splash image... none found, skipping...
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3-386
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.8.1-3-386_2.6.8.1-16.1_i386.deb

Failed to apply all changes! Scroll in this buffer to see what went wrong.

df -h paste

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 135M 108M 21M 84% /
tmpfs 316M 0 316M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 58M 2.3M 53M 5% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg-home 42G 1.4G 39G 4% /home
/dev/mapper/vg-opt 5.0G 33M 4.7G 1% /opt
/dev/mapper/vg-tmp 1.9G 8.2M 1.8G 1% /tmp
/dev/mapper/vg-usr 9.9G 1.4G 8.0G 15% /usr
/dev/mapper/vg-var 9.9G 138M 9.3G 2% /var

Looking over everything for dpkg, dselect, and apt, it should be using the /var partition to do all the work. As you can see I have quite a bit of space available on the var partition.

Any suggestions would be helpful.