Hi Ralph, While making the checks you suggested I discovered several full backups I had deleted that were still in the wastebasket. I now have sufficient space to run 10.04 but will have to upgrade my hardware sometime. Many thanks for your help.
Cheers, Peter. On 23/06/2010 13:17, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Peter, > > >> Thanks for the tip, the disk is nearly full with 0% available for dev. >> I shall have to upgrade my hardware. In the meantime is there a way of >> getting back to 9.10? >> > No, but you may find that if you clear some space and then do some > package action, e.g. > > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > > that the upgrade to 10.04 will continue. > > It does try to make sure there's sufficient space before starting, so > it's not good it has run out. One of the log files for the upgrade > records how much disc space it observed versus what it thought was > required. Try looking in > > /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log > > for "Free space". You should find lines around there to do with it. > You may want to report a bug that the upgrade failed. > > Cheers, > Ralph. > > > -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-07-06 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
