Update to 13.10 fails - Not enough space

[bonalymac]

Hi

I'm a complete beginner with Ubuntu. I am computer literate, and build and repair Windows PC's for friends and family, but I struggle big time with Ubuntu.

I have an old PC which I installed Ubunto on and it is used as a family PC for browsing, simple games etc. Today I used the software updater and it ran fine but then suggested I could upgrade from 13.04 to 13.10. When I try it however, I get told I have not got enough space, and need to clean approx 35Mb of space

As far as I am aware, the main disk (there are 2 physical disks) has approx 130Gb available in total, but obviously not in the correct place. I have run the apt-get clean as suggested, I have also emptied the recycle bin, but it still fails.

Can someone help tell me what I need to try next. Thanks

Colin

[fantab]

Post the output of:


df -h
sudo parted -l
sudo fdisk -l

[bonalymac]

Many thanks for offering your help.

I think this is the listing you wanted



colin@Bon-99:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu-root 145G 26G 112G 19% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 969M 4.0K 969M 1% /dev
tmpfs 196M 2.0M 194M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 977M 148K 977M 1% /run/shm
none 100M 44K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sda1 228M 202M 15M 94% /boot
/dev/sdb1 280G 202G 79G 72% /media/colin/MM1 - Audio




colin@Bon-99:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA ST3160215ACE (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 256MB 255MB primary ext2 boot
2 257MB 160GB 160GB extended
5 257MB 160GB 160GB logical lvm


Model: ATA Maxtor 6L300R0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 300GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 300GB 300GB primary ntfs


Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm)
Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu-swap_1: 2080MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop

Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00B 2080MB 2080MB linux-swap(v1)


Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm)
Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu-root: 158GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop

Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00B 158GB 158GB ext4





colin@Bon-99:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000b9318

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 499711 248832 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 501758 312580095 156039169 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 501760 312580095 156039168 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 300.1 GB, 300090728448 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders, total 586114704 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe2a8d3b1

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 586110975 293054464 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu-root: 157.7 GB, 157701636096 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19172 cylinders, total 308011008 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu-root doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu-swap_1: 2080 MB, 2080374784 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 252 cylinders, total 4063232 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu-swap_1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

[rbratcher]

I would like to jump in here too. I have tried to upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with the same result, also deleting files and cleaning. Here is my info:

rick@ubuntu:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 14G 12G 1.5G 90% /
none 999M 340K 998M 1% /dev
none 1003M 288K 1003M 1% /dev/shm
none 1003M 84K 1003M 1% /var/run
none 1003M 0 1003M 0% /var/lock
none 1003M 0 1003M 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda3 278G 7.9G 256G 3% /home
rick@ubuntu:~$ sudo parted -l
[sudo] password for rick:
Model: ATA Hitachi HTS54323 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 512B 15.0GB 15.0GB primary ext3 boot
2 15.0GB 17.0GB 2010MB primary linux-swap(v1)
3 17.0GB 320GB 303GB primary ext3


rick@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000b33f2

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1824 14648437+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1824 2069 1962890+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2069 38914 295959895+ 83 Linux
rick@ubuntu:~$ ^C
rick@ubuntu:~$


Thanks

[fantab]

@bonalymac:

dev/sda1 228M 202M 15M 94% /boot

I think you have old and unused kernels, you need to clean them first. Lets do it.

sudo update-grub
Will list all the kernel you have in there. Make a note of 'em.

uname -r
... will tell you what kernel you are currently using. Make a note of it and compare with the above to see if you are using the latest kernel available to you. If not reboot and check again.

sudo dpkg -l linux-* | awk '/^ii/{ print $2}' | grep -v -e `uname -r | cut -f1,2 -d"-"` | grep -e [0-9] | xargs sudo apt-get --dry-run remove
... will list all the old and unused kernels that the above command will be removing. Check to see it not removing the kernel shown by 'uname -r'. If it does then stop and report back. If not, then

sudo dpkg -l linux-* | awk '/^ii/{ print $2}' | grep -v -e `uname -r | cut -f1,2 -d"-"` | grep -e [0-9] | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge
... will actually remove all the old and unsued kernels from your system.

sudo update-grub
... to check how did the cleaning go and to update-grub...

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
... to bring your system upto date. Now you can upgrade to 13.10.

@rbratcher:

/dev/sda1 14G 12G 1.5G 90% /
You can also follow the above.
Also in your case it will be good idea to do a clean and fresh install of 12.04 than doing an internal upgrade.

[bonalymac]

Fantab

Perfect. Thank you very very much!

Your instructions worked exactly as you said they would, and my upgrade is now underway, it is just downloading 823M of files, and predictiing 12 mins of download followed by potentially much longer upgrade.

It is great to have resources like this available to stoopid users like me. Windows has it's own foibles, but the visual environment gives the user the impression that it is easier (of course in many ways it isn't really).

So thanks again for your time, and help, it really is appreciated, from a happy noob user

Colin

[fantab]

Glad that you've cleaned the /boot directory and that you are able to upgrade.
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