10.04 LTS 2.6.32-39 upgrade: linux-headers package errors

[JSeymour]

I'm getting this:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-39_2.6.32-39.86_all.deb: unable to create `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-39/arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/include/plat/s3c2412.h.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-39/arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/include/plat/s3c2412.h')
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-39-generic_2.6.32-39.86_i386.deb: unable to create `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-39-generic/include/config/edac/i82875p.h.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-39-generic/include/config/edac/i82875p.h')

Trying reinstallation likewise fails. What's up?

Thanks,
Jim

[cortman]

Have you tried


sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt/archives/*
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

If you still get errors, please post them.

[JSeymour]

Thanks, cortman.

root@mail:~# apt-get upgrade
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-headers-generic: Depends: linux-headers-2.6.32-39-generic but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
root@mail:~# apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.32-39-generic
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-headers-2.6.32-39-generic: Depends: linux-headers-2.6.32-39 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

So, just force it?

ETA: Reading that, it looks like... it depends upon itself???

Thanks,
Jim

[JSeymour]

Figured it out with the help of an on-line colleague. /usr was out of inodes! Deleted some unused stuff (incl. older linux-headers), did an explicit "apt-get install ..." and it's fixed.

Need to find more to delete, tho. /usr is still 74% inode usage :/

Dear Ubuntu distro maintainers: 15k/inode is probably a bit much. I've never run out of inodes on any *nix system I've ever maintained before, in over 20 years of doing so.

Jim

[cortman]

Figured it out with the help of an on-line colleague. /usr was out of inodes! Deleted some unused stuff (incl. older linux-headers), did an explicit "apt-get install ..." and it's fixed.

Need to find more to delete, tho. /usr is still 74% inode usage :/

Dear Ubuntu distro maintainers: 15k/inode is probably a bit much. I've never run out of inodes on any *nix system I've ever maintained before, in over 20 years of doing so.

Jim

Wow. Completely not what I expected- the reference to the cache made me think it was trying to reinstall a corrupted archive.
A /usr directory using 74% of inode storage is pretty unusual. May want to poke around in there a bit more...

[JSeymour]

Wow. Completely not what I expected- the reference to the cache made me think it was trying to reinstall a corrupted archive.
I would've never guessed it, either. In better than 20 years of administering various flavours of 'nix, I've never run even low on inodes, much less run out of them!


A /usr directory using 74% of inode storage is pretty unusual. May want to poke around in there a bit more...
It was at 99% before I cleared some stuff out.

root@mail:/usr# df -i .
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 183264 128314 54950 71% /usr

root@mail:/usr# for ea in `ls`; do echo -e "$ea: \c"; find $ea -type f -print |wc -l; done |sort -k 2rn
share: 44779
src: 28037
lib: 8479
local: 2427
include: 1197
bin: 1013
sbin: 236
games: 0
lost+found: 0

/usr/src has two sets of Linux headers in it. (It had four when the upgrade failed.)

root@mail:/usr/share# for ea in `ls`; do echo -e "$ea: \c"; find $ea -type f -print |wc -l; done |sort -k 2rn |head -20
icons: 6600
doc: 6511
man: 4722
app-install: 4002
pyshared: 1817
zoneinfo: 1788
squirrelmail: 1447
vim: 1419
fonts: 1353
perl: 1303
locale-langpack: 953
gnome: 843
locale: 720
themes: 663
mime: 633
i18n: 521
m17n: 518
X11: 498
hplip: 491
perl5: 490

6600 icons? Seriously?

Jim