out of room in /boot, 13.10 upgrade

[Norrolith]

I am trying to uppgrade my 13.04 install to 13.10
but whenever I try do-release-upgrade
I get a lot of scrolling text(normal)
I get a reminder about thirdparty packages
and then I get this.

Calculating the changes

Calculating the changes

Not enough free disk space

The upgrade has aborted. The upgrade needs a total of 54.8 M free
space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 18.4 M of
disk space on '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages
of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.


Restoring original system state

Aborting
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done
enduser@Phoenix:~$ ^C
enduser@Phoenix:~$

And it goes no farther.
any ideas?
I did install from a live usb on a blank system.

[Bucky Ball]

This:

The upgrade has aborted. The upgrade needs a total of 54.8 M free
space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 18.4 M of
disk space on '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages
of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.

Empty trash, clear some of the old things out of /boot.

[Norrolith]

enduser@Phoenix:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root 909G 220G 643G 26% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 3.9G 12K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 795M 2.1M 793M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 3.9G 812K 3.9G 1% /run/shm
none 100M 68K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sda1 228M 181M 35M 84% /boot
/dev/sdb1 29G 16G 14G 55% /media/enduser/B52C-C294
/dev/sdc1 30G 9.3G 21G 32% /media/enduser/USB DISK
enduser@Phoenix:~$

[Petro Dawg]

have you run

 sudo apt-get clean

?

[Norrolith]

Sorry I did not mention that I had used the sudo apt-get clean
I can find the boot folder and I have no idea what is neccessary in it and what is not.
Looking in the folder I have.
A grub folder.
several versions of abi-3.8.0-[ranges from 19 to 32]-generic.
initrd.img-3.8.0-[varies]-generic
memtest86+.bin
memtest86+_multiboot.bin
config-3.8.0-[varies]-generic
System.map-3.8.0[varies]-generic
vmlinuz-3.8.0-[varies]-generic

[ajgreeny]

can you show us the output of command df -h please which will show your mounted partitions and how much space is being used in them all.

[Norrolith]

So I would enter
Code:

grep "menuentry " /boot/grub/grub.cfg | cut -c 1-100
in a terminal?
I am not finding a codebox in synaptic.

[ajgreeny]

So I would enter
Code:

grep "menuentry " /boot/grub/grub.cfg | cut -c 1-100
in a terminal?
I am not finding a codebox in synaptic.

Sorry if I confused you.

That command is entered in a terminal and the output shows a list of all kernels installed, all of which except the top two in the list can be removed. You will be running the top listed kernel by default, but check with command uname -a as suggested by Petro Dawg.

[SeijiSensei]

Running "sudo apt-get autoremove" often cleans out older kernels and frees up space in /boot. Give that a try.

[ajgreeny]

You have a separate /boot partition which is too small for the number of kernels you have installed and I don't think autoremove removes older kernels, I'm afraid. A separate /boot partition is not normally recommended on a desktop machine, partly for the reason you have just seen, ie, it is too easy to run out of space, but if you make sure you only keep two kernels you should be fine until you next install the system, at which point I suggest you get rid of the /boot partition and leave it in / as is more normal.

I always remove extra kernels with synaptic, which you may have to install. I then search for the kernel numbers that are installed with command

grep "menuentry " /boot/grub/grub.cfg | cut -c 1-100

and remove all except the two most recent; autoremove will then remove the unneeded header packages related to your now removed kernel versions.