[SOLVED] Failed kernel upgrade

[SkonesMickLoud]

I built and installed the 2.6.25.5 kernel, and all seemed to go well until reboot. When everything's loaded I notice that I'm still running my old 2.6.24-19. So I reboot again, go into GRUB and there is no option for 2.6.25.5. Now, whenever I try to do anything with apt-get, aptitude, or Synaptic I get some form of the following error:



skones@skones-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install --fix-missing
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 15.6MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 152899 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic ...
FATAL: Could not open '/boot/System.map-2.6.24-19-generic': No such file or directory
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
dpkg: error processing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


It's telling me that I have no space left on the disk, yet I have 3.5Gb clear on / and another ~135Gb on /home.

Any ideas?

[EDIT]

Now Synaptic is giving me this when I try to apply updates:



Not enough free disk space

The upgrade aborts now. The upgrade needs a total of 31.5M free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 31.5M of disk space on '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.


Like I said before, "sudo apt-get clean" gives the same error.

[iaculallad]

Post the output of:


df -h

[SkonesMickLoud]

Post the output of:


df -h



Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9.9G 5.9G 3.5G 63% /
varrun 760M 108K 760M 1% /var/run
varlock 760M 0 760M 0% /var/lock
udev 760M 48K 760M 1% /dev
devshm 760M 12K 760M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 760M 38M 723M 5% /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/volatile
/dev/sda4 99M 44M 51M 47% /boot
/dev/sda3 134G 2.3G 125G 2% /home
gvfs-fuse-daemon 9.9G 5.9G 3.5G 63% /home/skones/.gvfs

[iaculallad]

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9.9G 5.9G 3.5G 63% /
varrun 760M 108K 760M 1% /var/run
varlock 760M 0 760M 0% /var/lock
udev 760M 48K 760M 1% /dev
devshm 760M 12K 760M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 760M 38M 723M 5% /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/volatile
/dev/sda4 99M 44M 51M 47% /boot
/dev/sda3 134G 2.3G 125G 2% /home
gvfs-fuse-daemon 9.9G 5.9G 3.5G 63% /home/skones/.gvfs


Try to delete *.bak files on your /boot to free more space (boot directory only has 51MB remaining) then retry your sudo apt-get install --fix-missing terminal command.


cd /boot
sudo rm *.bak
sudo apt-get install --fix-missing

[SkonesMickLoud]

Now I get:



skones@skones-laptop:/boot$ sudo apt-get install --fix-missing
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.25 (386) ...
Internal Error: Could not find image (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25)
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.25 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.25
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Synaptic and apt-get now look for, and can't find 2.6.25.

[iaculallad]

Try to follow this guide (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=311158&highlight=kernel) for the Failed Kernel.

[SkonesMickLoud]

I'll give it a shot tomorrow, but following the first instruction is a no-go as I can't apt-get.

I'm thinking I'll wipe / and start anew. \\:D/ for separate / and /home!!!

Thanks for the try.