Error while performing upgrade or dist-upgrade

[erat123]

I'm getting an error while trying to upgrade through apt. The software usually upgrades to the newest patches and updates, but I always receive the following error:



E: linux-image-2.6.24-18-generic: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
E: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-18-generic: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: linux-image-generic: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-18-generic: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: linux-restricted-modules-generic: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: linux-generic: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured


Thanks for any help.

[abn91c]

did you do dpkg --configure -a

[erat123]

I did, and I got the following messages, w/ an error:

eric@erbuntu:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up linux-image-2.6.24-18-generic (2.6.24-18.32) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-18-generic

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-18-generic
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.24-18-generic (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-18-generic:
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-18-generic depends on linux-image-2.6.24-18-generic; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.24-18-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-18-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-18-generic:
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-18-generic depends on linux-image-2.6.24-18-generic; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.24-18-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-18-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-generic:
linux-image-generic depends on linux-image-2.6.24-18-generic; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.24-18-generic is not configured yet.
linux-image-generic depends on linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-18-generic; however:
Package linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-18-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-restricted-modules-generic:
linux-restricted-modules-generic depends on linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-18-generic; however:
Package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-18-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-generic:
linux-generic depends on linux-image-generic (= 2.6.24.18.20); however:
Package linux-image-generic is not configured yet.
linux-generic depends on linux-restricted-modules-generic (= 2.6.24.18.20); however:
Package linux-restricted-modules-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.24-18-generic
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-18-generic
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-18-generic
linux-image-generic
linux-restricted-modules-generic
linux-generic

[Pumalite]

Post:
df -h

[erat123]

eric@erbuntu:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 294G 101G 179G 37% /
varrun 505M 280K 505M 1% /var/run
varlock 505M 0 505M 0% /var/lock
udev 505M 88K 505M 1% /dev
devshm 505M 832K 505M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 505M 38M 468M 8% /lib/modules/2.6.24-17-generic/volatile
/dev/sdb1 92M 91M 0 100% /boot
gvfs-fuse-daemon 294G 101G 179G 37% /home/eric/.gvfs

[avtolle]

eric@erbuntu:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 294G 101G 179G 37% /
varrun 505M 280K 505M 1% /var/run
varlock 505M 0 505M 0% /var/lock
udev 505M 88K 505M 1% /dev
devshm 505M 832K 505M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 505M 38M 468M 8% /lib/modules/2.6.24-17-generic/volatile
/dev/sdb1 92M 91M 0 100% /boot
gvfs-fuse-daemon 294G 101G 179G 37% /home/eric/.gvfs
Your boot partition is full. Quick and dirty; delete old kernels through Synaptic (mark for total removal), that should free up some space for the new kernel.

[Pumalite]

I see that you beat me to it. Congrats.

[roynux]

Hello,

I had the same problem here because I have a rather small /boot partition (64Mb).

I thought that a mechanism to remove old kernel images was to be implemented in hardy.

[SoundFriend]

I have had similar problems upgrading the kernel.

df -h gives:



Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 37G 4.5G 30G 13% /
varrun 252M 100K 252M 1% /var/run
varlock 252M 0 252M 0% /var/lock
udev 252M 68K 252M 1% /dev
devshm 252M 12K 252M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 252M 38M 215M 15% /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/volatile

I don't seem to have a /boot , does this matter?
If so, how do I fix it?
Perhaps the install script should do a check for disk space...

J