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  1. #1
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    Root out of space

    During a regular update I ran out of space on /
    The problem is that I can't remove any packages or do autoremove.

    Code:
    root@laptop:/# df -hl
    Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sda5       8,2G  7,8G     0 100% /
    none            4,0K     0  4,0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
    udev            3,9G  4,0K  3,9G   1% /dev
    tmpfs           3,9G   96K  3,9G   1% /tmp
    tmpfs           790M  900K  789M   1% /run
    none            5,0M     0  5,0M   0% /run/lock
    none            3,9G  1,3M  3,9G   1% /run/shm
    none            100M   44K  100M   1% /run/user
    /dev/sda6        20G   17G  1,9G  90% /home
    I can't remove any packages as this message appears:

    Code:
    root@laptop:/# apt-get remove dosbox 
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
     libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 : Depends: libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 (= 2.0.3-1ubuntu1~build1) but 2.0.4-1ubuntu1~raring2 is to be installed
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
    If I do as instructed:

    Code:
    root@laptop:/# apt-get -f install
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    Correcting dependencies... Done
    The following extra packages will be installed:
      libwebkitgtk-1.0-0
    The following packages will be upgraded:
      libwebkitgtk-1.0-0
    1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    30 not fully installed or removed.
    Need to get 0 B/49,0 MB of archives.
    After this operation, 627 MB of additional disk space will be used.
    Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
    (Reading database ... 214282 files and directories currently installed.)
    Preparing to replace libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 2.0.3-1ubuntu1~build1 (using .../libwebkitgtk-1.0-0_2.0.4-1ubuntu1~raring2_amd64.deb) ...
    Unpacking replacement libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 ...
    dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libwebkitgtk-1.0-0_2.0.4-1ubuntu1~raring2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
     cannot copy extracted data for './usr/lib/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0.18.9' to '/usr/lib/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0.18.9.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space left on device)
    dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     /var/cache/apt/archives/libwebkitgtk-1.0-0_2.0.4-1ubuntu1~raring2_amd64.deb
    I tried doing 'apt-get autoclean' and 'apt-get clean', but they did not free any space. Autoremove gives this:

    Code:
    root@laptop:/# apt-get autoremove
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
     libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 : Depends: libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 (= 2.0.3-1ubuntu1~build1) but 2.0.4-1ubuntu1~raring2 is installed
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
    I tried already removing wallpapers and other stuff I found from /, but none helped. Is there a way to abort this update process or clear the apt-get so that I could remove unneeded packages?

    I don't have old kernels but I do have some programs that I would like to remove. If I could that is.

  2. #2
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    Re: Root out of space

    Do you have older kernels that you can remove? Check with -
    Code:
    dpkg -l | grep linux-image


    EDIT: Ugh! Noticed the last line in your post after posting mine

    PS:
    Oh, and Welcome to the forums !
    Last edited by varunendra; August 15th, 2013 at 12:58 PM.
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    Re: Root out of space

    Code:
    sudo apt-get clean
    will clear out the .deb packages in the /var/apt/archives/ directory and might give you enough space to run
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install -f
    I tried doing 'apt-get autoclean' and 'apt-get clean', but they did not free any space.
    Whoops missed this. Have you tried emptying root Thrash?


    /dev/sda5 8,2G 7,8G 0 100% /
    That seems a lot of space used in / .

    My / system partition uses 4.4G.

    Search for out of control log files or system backups.

    Good Luck
    Last edited by plucky; August 15th, 2013 at 01:43 PM. Reason: Update information
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    Re: Root out of space

    /root is only 3.2M and no .Trash there

    However /usr is 6.9G, it's contents:

    Code:
    root@laptop:/usr# ls -1 | xargs du -sh
    308M    bin
    1,8M    games
    139M    include
    3,4G    lib
    4,0K    lib32
    1,2G    local
    20M     sbin
    1,9G    share
    107M    src
    Obviously the /usr/lib is one of the largest directories. I don't see how I could manually delete any of this stuff to free some space. I have Netbeans and other programming stuff installed that have probably filled up the lib directory. I was unable to uninstall any more Netbeans plugins.

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    Re: Root out of space

    I was able to uninstall Netbeans as it was not installed via apt-get. /usr/local/netbeans-x.x.x had uninstall.sh that freed enough space on / for me to do 'apt-get -f install'. Now I can remove programs again.

    This was really weird situation, which was hard to get out of. Luckily I had one large program (Netbeans) that I was able to uninstall. I don't know what else I could have done. The /usr/lib folder is still 3,3G and I don't quite understand why. I think it's easiest just to re-install Ubuntu, again.

    I'll mark this as solved.

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    Re: Root out of space

    Quote Originally Posted by 7YdPAF3 View Post
    I think it's easiest just to re-install Ubuntu, again.
    Unfortunately, I have to concur.

    And obviously, make the root bigger now that you have a practical experience of the space usage with the programs you are going to install.
    Good luck with the next installation.
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