error during a update

[ryadav]

I got an error during an update, so I rebooted and performed a "sudo apt-get install -f" and got the following error:


~:$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-4.4.0-31 linux-headers-4.4.0-31-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-38 linux-headers-4.4.0-38-generic linux-image-4.4.0-31-generic linux-image-4.4.0-38-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-31-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-38-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up linux-image-extra-4.4.0-43-generic (4.4.0-43.63) ...
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal 4.4.0-43-generic /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-43-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 4.4.0-43-generic /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-43-generic
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-43-generic

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-43-generic with 1.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-extra-4.4.0-43-generic (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-generic:
linux-image-generic depends on linux-image-extra-4.4.0-43-generic; however:
Package linux-image-extra-4.4.0-43-generic is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package linux-image-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-generic:
linux-generic depends on linux-image-generic (= 4.4.0.43.45); however:
Package linux-image-generic is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package linux-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-43-generic
linux-image-generic
linux-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[ryadav]

Just noticed the actual error message ... my boot partition just ran out of space.

Fixed with: sudo apt-get autoremove

To be safe I also did a, "autoclean" and "purge" then

sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Followed with a system reboot!