Problem with Synaptic Package Manager

[mwhite1206]

I was recently trying to install a package, along with its related dependencies (I think I was trying to install vim, but I can't actually remember...) anyway, whilst trying to do this with the Synaptic Package Manager, something went awry and the Package Manager crashed. Now, whenever I try to either start the Package Manager, or install updates off the Update Manager, I get the following error, after which the Manager closes:

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

I've tried doing as the error said, with the following results:

marc@juju:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up libc6 (2.8~20080505-0ubuntu9) ...
iconvconfig: cannot generate output file: No space left on device

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Writing of cache data failed: No such file or directory
dpkg: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

I've tried to make space with the apt-get package (eg autoclean, autoremove & clean,) but of those three, only clean runs, whilst the other two throw the same error as the GUI Package Manager. Is this a disk space issue, or is there something else underlying that's stuffed it up?

[theozzlives]

Sounds like your root partition is full, and because of that you have a broken package now. Is there anyway you can resize your root partition, or does it take up the whole disk? If you have a seperate /home, make /home smaller and root bigger.

[lykwydchykyn]

Can you post the output of "df -h"? That would tell us if it were a disk space issue.

[mwhite1206]

marc@juju:~/FLASH3.1.1a/source/Simulation/SimulationMain/Jet3D$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 2.9G 2.9G 0 100% /
tmpfs 1008M 0 1008M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 1008M 96K 1008M 1% /var/run
varlock 1008M 0 1008M 0% /var/lock
udev 1008M 2.9M 1006M 1% /dev
tmpfs 1008M 412K 1008M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda10 32G 4.6G 26G 16% /home
/dev/sda9 2.9G 70M 2.7G 3% /tmp
/dev/sda8 4.7G 407M 4.1G 9% /var
/dev/sda5 51G 47G 3.5G 94% /media/datawin
/dev/sda2 51G 26G 26G 50% /media/progwin
marc@juju:~/FLASH3.1.1a/source/Simulation/SimulationMain/Jet3D$

As you can see, the root partition is quite full, and the home partition is quite not :P how does one go about doing the resizing though? I was actually looking earlier, but couldn't see any built-in partitioning tool...