gansvv
July 5th, 2010, 07:06 PM
Hi, My Ubuntu 8.04 server has ~37MB in a /boot partition. The partition got full during a recent update (df showed 100% usage in /boot) and I got this error.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.24-28-server_2.6.24-28.70_amd64.deb (--unpack):
failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-28-server': No space left on device
So, to remove some space from /boot I moved the *.bak files from /boot to a backup folder in my /home. Then after checking my current kernel with
$uname -r
2.6.24-27-server
I proceeded to remove the unused, old kernel with
sudo apt-get remove linux-image-2.6.24-23-server
Somehow, this process got terminated in between again due to lack of space in /boot. Now, I get this error for every APT action.
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:
linux-image-server: Depends: linux-image-2.6.24-28-server but it is not going to be installed
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-23-server: Depends: linux-image-2.6.24-23-server but it is not going to be installed
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-28-server: Depends: linux-image-2.6.24-28-server but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
I tried sudo apt-get -f install to clear broken packages, but it hangs at this error.
Removing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-23-server ...
FATAL: Could not open '/boot/System.map-2.6.24-23-server': No such file or directory
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-23-server
Cannot find /lib/modules/2.6.24-23-server
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-23-server
dpkg: error processing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-23-server (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-23-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
These are the contents of /boot partition.
total 37M
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1.0K 2010-07-05 13:50 ./
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4.0K 2010-07-04 22:04 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 411K 2010-03-24 09:39 abi-2.6.24-27-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 411K 2010-05-26 22:10 abi-2.6.24-28-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73K 2010-03-24 09:39 config-2.6.24-27-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73K 2010-05-26 22:10 config-2.6.24-28-server
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0K 2010-07-04 22:07 grub/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.2M 2010-07-04 22:52 initrd.img-2.6.24-23-server.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.5M 2010-04-20 12:01 initrd.img-2.6.24-27-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.5M 2010-07-04 22:52 initrd.img-2.6.24-27-server.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.5M 2010-07-04 22:04 initrd.img-2.6.24-28-server
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12K 2009-06-15 15:42 lost+found/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 101K 2007-09-28 07:03 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M 2010-03-24 09:39 System.map-2.6.24-27-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M 2010-05-26 22:10 System.map-2.6.24-28-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9M 2010-03-24 09:39 vmlinuz-2.6.24-27-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9M 2010-05-26 22:10 vmlinuz-2.6.24-28-server
Did the partial run of autoremove -delete the System.map-2.6.24-23-server and corrupt the whole process. How can I solve this and clear APT? Please help!
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.24-28-server_2.6.24-28.70_amd64.deb (--unpack):
failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-28-server': No space left on device
So, to remove some space from /boot I moved the *.bak files from /boot to a backup folder in my /home. Then after checking my current kernel with
$uname -r
2.6.24-27-server
I proceeded to remove the unused, old kernel with
sudo apt-get remove linux-image-2.6.24-23-server
Somehow, this process got terminated in between again due to lack of space in /boot. Now, I get this error for every APT action.
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:
linux-image-server: Depends: linux-image-2.6.24-28-server but it is not going to be installed
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-23-server: Depends: linux-image-2.6.24-23-server but it is not going to be installed
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-28-server: Depends: linux-image-2.6.24-28-server but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
I tried sudo apt-get -f install to clear broken packages, but it hangs at this error.
Removing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-23-server ...
FATAL: Could not open '/boot/System.map-2.6.24-23-server': No such file or directory
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-23-server
Cannot find /lib/modules/2.6.24-23-server
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-23-server
dpkg: error processing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-23-server (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-23-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
These are the contents of /boot partition.
total 37M
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1.0K 2010-07-05 13:50 ./
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4.0K 2010-07-04 22:04 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 411K 2010-03-24 09:39 abi-2.6.24-27-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 411K 2010-05-26 22:10 abi-2.6.24-28-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73K 2010-03-24 09:39 config-2.6.24-27-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73K 2010-05-26 22:10 config-2.6.24-28-server
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0K 2010-07-04 22:07 grub/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.2M 2010-07-04 22:52 initrd.img-2.6.24-23-server.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.5M 2010-04-20 12:01 initrd.img-2.6.24-27-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.5M 2010-07-04 22:52 initrd.img-2.6.24-27-server.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.5M 2010-07-04 22:04 initrd.img-2.6.24-28-server
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12K 2009-06-15 15:42 lost+found/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 101K 2007-09-28 07:03 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M 2010-03-24 09:39 System.map-2.6.24-27-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M 2010-05-26 22:10 System.map-2.6.24-28-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9M 2010-03-24 09:39 vmlinuz-2.6.24-27-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9M 2010-05-26 22:10 vmlinuz-2.6.24-28-server
Did the partial run of autoremove -delete the System.map-2.6.24-23-server and corrupt the whole process. How can I solve this and clear APT? Please help!