Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,
Thanks. I had three kernels on the desktop and I removed 2.6.18-4. The upgrade ran without any trouble. However, the Thinkpad only has 2.6.18-5and 2.6.18-6, so I'll have to remove something else. --Steve On Feb 14, 2008 5:14 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:54:16PM -0800, Steve Mazurek wrote: I have been trying to install on etch the most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 on an IBM Thinkpad T23 with a Pentium 3 and on a Gateway desktop also running a Pentium 3 using aptitude update aptitude upgrade. Every time I do this, I get the error message: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux- image-2.6.8-6-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-1-18etch1_i386.deb (--unpack): failed in buffer_write (fd) (9, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during './lib/modules/2.6.18-6-686/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core.ko' : No space left on device I am not sure what this means (my hlinux books are not available) nor do I know what to do about this. I've found nothing googling the problem. I switched to etch after it became stable and have had no trouble upgrading or installing using aptitude. I'd appreciate any information you could give me. Thanks. /lib is full. /lib has to be on your / partition (even if /usr and /var are separate). If /var is not separate, you have more places to look. If everything is separate, you may have more kernels installed than you need. Look in /lib/modules and see how many directories (one for each kernel) you have. I only keep 2 (current, and the last version that worked). If you're using the kernel meta-package for your arch, as new versions come out, it doesn't remove old versions, so they can pile up. You have to find the kernel version you want to remove and do so with your package manager (e.g. aptitude). Good luck. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,
On Thu February 14 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: If everything is separate, you may have more kernels installed than you need. Look in /lib/modules and see how many directories (one for each kernel) you have. I only keep 2 (current, and the last version that worked). ack. I looked there and had way too many folders: /lib/modules# ls 2.6.18-4-686 2.6.18-6-686 2.6.18-6-vserver-686 2.6.22-2-686 2.6.18-5-486 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem 2.6.18-6-vserver-k7 2.6.22-3-686 2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18-6-amd64 2.6.18-6-xen-686 2.6.18-6-486 2.6.18-6-k7 2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 I am running Etc, with the 2.6.18-6-686 kernel. What is the correct way to get rid of those, dpkg deinstall ? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459
Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,
On Fri February 15 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: 2.6.18-4-686 2.6.18-6-686 2.6.18-6-vserver-686 2.6.22-2-686 2.6.18-5-486 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem 2.6.18-6-vserver-k7 2.6.22-3-686 2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18-6-amd64 2.6.18-6-xen-686 2.6.18-6-486 2.6.18-6-k7 2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 I am running Etc, with the 2.6.18-6-686 kernel. What is the correct way to get rid of those, dpkg deinstall ? Use whatever package management tool you normally use. If you are running Etch then you will have installed non-etch kernels (e.g. 2.6.22-2-686, 2.6.22-3-686 which are not Etch). Ensure that you keep your current kernel and the last one that ran well. I suppose that if you are using Xen then you need a xen kernel. If you need vserver... etc. Doug. ok, now I remember. I had to add the linux-headers package: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386 to get the headers so I could install my NVIDIA driver into the current kernel. This added all of those OTHER kernel packages and folder.. when I try to remove the xen-vserver headers I get this: # aptitude remove linux-headers-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 linux-image-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386 The following packages have been kept back: libquicktime0 The following packages will be REMOVED: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 8040kB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386: Depends: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 (= 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1) but it is not installable Resolving dependencies... The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386 Score is 119 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n Resolving dependencies... *** No more solutions available *** The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386 - now what. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459
Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 07:35:38AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Thu February 14 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: If everything is separate, you may have more kernels installed than you need. ?Look in /lib/modules and see how many directories (one for each kernel) you have. ?I only keep 2 (current, and the last version that worked). ? ack. I looked there and had way too many folders: /lib/modules# ls 2.6.18-4-686 2.6.18-6-686 2.6.18-6-vserver-686 2.6.22-2-686 2.6.18-5-486 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem 2.6.18-6-vserver-k7 2.6.22-3-686 2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18-6-amd64 2.6.18-6-xen-686 2.6.18-6-486 2.6.18-6-k72.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 I am running Etc, with the 2.6.18-6-686 kernel. What is the correct way to get rid of those, dpkg deinstall ? Use whatever package management tool you normally use. If you are running Etch then you will have installed non-etch kernels (e.g. 2.6.22-2-686, 2.6.22-3-686 which are not Etch). Ensure that you keep your current kernel and the last one that ran well. I suppose that if you are using Xen then you need a xen kernel. If you need vserver... etc. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:11:30 -0500 Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri February 15 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: 2.6.18-4-686 2.6.18-6-686 2.6.18-6-vserver-686 2.6.22-2-686 2.6.18-5-486 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem 2.6.18-6-vserver-k7 2.6.22-3-686 2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18-6-amd64 2.6.18-6-xen-686 2.6.18-6-486 2.6.18-6-k7 2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 I am running Etc, with the 2.6.18-6-686 kernel. What is the correct way to get rid of those, dpkg deinstall ? Use whatever package management tool you normally use. If you are running Etch then you will have installed non-etch kernels (e.g. 2.6.22-2-686, 2.6.22-3-686 which are not Etch). Ensure that you keep your current kernel and the last one that ran well. I suppose that if you are using Xen then you need a xen kernel. If you need vserver... etc. Doug. ok, now I remember. I had to add the linux-headers package: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386 to get the headers so I could install my NVIDIA driver into the current kernel. This added all of those OTHER kernel packages and folder.. when I try to remove the xen-vserver headers I get this: # aptitude remove linux-headers-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 linux-image-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386 The following packages have been kept back: libquicktime0 The following packages will be REMOVED: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 8040kB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386: Depends: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 (= 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1) but it is not installable Resolving dependencies... The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386 Score is 119 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n Resolving dependencies... *** No more solutions available *** The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386 - now what. well, you normally only need the linux-headers package corresponding to the linux-image package you have installed. You can remove the rest. The linux-headers-*all* package simply exists to pull in all the other header packages. You'll need to remove that as well, to remove any other header package. -- Kushal
Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,
On Fri February 15 2008, Kushal Kumaran wrote: well, you normally only need the linux-headers package corresponding to the linux-image package you have installed. You can remove the rest. The linux-headers-*all* package simply exists to pull in all the other header packages. You'll need to remove that as well, to remove any other header package. I removed that, then I had to install the linux-headers-2.6.18-6 package. I'm not sure why I didn't have it before, that's what I needed to install the NVIDIA module in my installed kernel 2.6.18-6 I think I picked the wrong headers package originally.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459
Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:11:30AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri February 15 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: 2.6.18-4-686 ?2.6.18-6-686 ? 2.6.18-6-vserver-686 ? ? ?2.6.22-2-686 2.6.18-5-486 ?2.6.18-6-686-bigmem ?2.6.18-6-vserver-k7 ? ? 2.6.22-3-686 2.6.18-5-686 ?2.6.18-6-amd64?? ? 2.6.18-6-xen-686 2.6.18-6-486 ?2.6.18-6-k7? ? 2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 I am running Etc, with the 2.6.18-6-686 kernel. What is the correct way to get rid of those, dpkg deinstall ? Use whatever package management tool you normally use. ?If you are running Etch then you will have installed non-etch kernels (e.g. 2.6.22-2-686, 2.6.22-3-686 which are not Etch). ?Ensure that you keep your current kernel and the last one that ran well. ?I suppose that if you are using Xen then you need a xen kernel. ?If you need vserver... etc. ? ok, now I remember. I had to add the linux-headers package: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386 to get the headers so I could install my NVIDIA driver into the current kernel. In Etch, with stock Etch kernels, you should just need the coresponding nvidia kernel package. I never have to install the headers. This added all of those OTHER kernel packages and folder.. when I try to remove the xen-vserver headers I get this: # aptitude remove linux-headers-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 linux-image-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386 The following packages have been kept back: libquicktime0 The following packages will be REMOVED: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 8040kB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386: Depends: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-686 (= 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1) but it is not installable Resolving dependencies... The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386 Score is 119 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n Resolving dependencies... *** No more solutions available *** The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386 - Even if you needed the headers to compile a custom nvidia module, once its compiled you can remove the headers. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,
On Fri February 15 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: In Etch, with stock Etch kernels, you should just need the coresponding nvidia kernel package. I never have to install the headers. kernel, or kernel-headers.. I'm almost positive I hd to install the kernel headers, but I sure could be wrong! Remove the following packages: linux-headers-2.6.18-6-all-i386 - Even if you needed the headers to compile a custom nvidia module, once its compiled you can remove the headers. THAT is good to know! unless you have to revert BACK to that kernel later... if something blows up and you have to revert back to an earlier kernel, then... -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459
Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,
I have been trying to install on etch the most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 on an IBM Thinkpad T23 with a Pentium 3 and on a Gateway desktop also running a Pentium 3 using aptitude update aptitude upgrade. Every time I do this, I get the error message: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux- image-2.6.8-6-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-1-18etch1_i386.deb (--unpack): failed in buffer_write (fd) (9, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during './lib/modules/2.6.18-6-686/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core.ko' : No space left on device I am not sure what this means (my hlinux books are not available) nor do I know what to do about this. I've found nothing googling the problem. I switched to etch after it became stable and have had no trouble upgrading or installing using aptitude. I'd appreciate any information you could give me. Thanks. Steve Mazurek
Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,
Steve Mazurek wrote: I have been trying to install on etch the most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 on an IBM Thinkpad T23 with a Pentium 3 and on a Gateway desktop also running a Pentium 3 using aptitude update aptitude upgrade. Every time I do this, I get the error message: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.8-6-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-1-18etch1_i386.deb (--unpack): failed in buffer_write (fd) (9, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during './lib/modules/2.6.18-6-686/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core.ko' : No space left on device I am not sure what this means (my hlinux books are not available) nor do I know what to do about this. I've found nothing googling the problem. I switched to etch after it became stable and have had no trouble upgrading or installing using aptitude. I'd appreciate any information you could give me. Thanks. Steve Mazurek Looks like your disk is out of space.. maybe try a 'aptitude autoclean' to remove old deb files and free up some space . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,
Steve Mazurek wrote: I have been trying to install on etch the most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 on an IBM Thinkpad T23 with a Pentium 3 and on a Gateway desktop also running a Pentium 3 using aptitude update aptitude upgrade. Every time I do this, I get the error message: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.8-6-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-1-18etch1_i386.deb (--unpack): failed in buffer_write (fd) (9, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during './lib/modules/2.6.18-6-686/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core.ko' : No space left on device I am not sure what this means (my hlinux books are not available) nor do I know what to do about this. You're out of drive space on the /var partition. Run df -h to see how much Disk space is Free on your various partitions; here's what my output looks like; your's will look different: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 183M 145M 29M 84% / tmpfs 94M 0 94M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 76K 10M 1% /dev tmpfs 94M 4.0K 94M 1% /dev/shm /dev/hda5 3.7G 3.4G 107M 98% /usr /dev/hda6 703M 477M 191M 72% /var /dev/hda7 9.2G 3.5G 5.3G 40% /home /dev/hda9 54M 4.1M 47M 9% /tmp /dev/hda1 5.2G 2.7G 2.5G 52% /home/novie/Win98 Your /var partition is likely to be on your / partition, so if you don't see a separate /var, look for /. You can also scan down the Use% column for high numbers, like 99 or 100%. There's a good chance that old .debs from older upgrades is eating a lot of space. aptitude autoclean will delete any old .debs (in the standard location - /var/cache/apt/archives) that are no longer suitable for installing on your system. aptitude clean will delete all .debs (in the standard location). If one of those commands doesn't free up enough space to do what you need, you'll have to be more aggressive in freeing up some space. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,
Kent West wrote: Steve Mazurek wrote: I have been trying to install on etch the most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 on an IBM Thinkpad T23 with a Pentium 3 and on a Gateway desktop also running a Pentium 3 using aptitude update aptitude upgrade. Every time I do this, I get the error message: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.8-6-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-1-18etch1_i386.deb (--unpack): failed in buffer_write (fd) (9, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during './lib/modules/2.6.18-6-686/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core.ko' : No space left on device I am not sure what this means (my hlinux books are not available) nor do I know what to do about this. You're out of drive space on the /var partition. Correction: it looks like it's your /lib partition (which is probably on the / partition, which may also hold the /var partition, so the *clean commands still may work; df -h should point you in the right direction). -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:54:16PM -0800, Steve Mazurek wrote: I have been trying to install on etch the most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 on an IBM Thinkpad T23 with a Pentium 3 and on a Gateway desktop also running a Pentium 3 using aptitude update aptitude upgrade. Every time I do this, I get the error message: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux- image-2.6.8-6-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-1-18etch1_i386.deb (--unpack): failed in buffer_write (fd) (9, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during './lib/modules/2.6.18-6-686/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core.ko' : No space left on device I am not sure what this means (my hlinux books are not available) nor do I know what to do about this. I've found nothing googling the problem. I switched to etch after it became stable and have had no trouble upgrading or installing using aptitude. I'd appreciate any information you could give me. Thanks. /lib is full. /lib has to be on your / partition (even if /usr and /var are separate). If /var is not separate, you have more places to look. If everything is separate, you may have more kernels installed than you need. Look in /lib/modules and see how many directories (one for each kernel) you have. I only keep 2 (current, and the last version that worked). If you're using the kernel meta-package for your arch, as new versions come out, it doesn't remove old versions, so they can pile up. You have to find the kernel version you want to remove and do so with your package manager (e.g. aptitude). Good luck. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,
I've run df -h on the Thinkpad. /dev/hda1 is 94% full, so it looks like that is where I'll have to focus my attention. Thanks! On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:54:16PM -0800, Steve Mazurek wrote: I have been trying to install on etch the most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 on an IBM Thinkpad T23 with a Pentium 3 and on a Gateway desktop also running a Pentium 3 using aptitude update aptitude upgrade. Every time I do this, I get the error message: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux- image-2.6.8-6-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-1-18etch1_i386.deb (--unpack): failed in buffer_write (fd) (9, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during './lib/modules/2.6.18-6-686/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core.ko' : No space left on device I am not sure what this means (my hlinux books are not available) nor do I know what to do about this. I've found nothing googling the problem. I switched to etch after it became stable and have had no trouble upgrading or installing using aptitude. I'd appreciate any information you could give me. Thanks. /lib is full. /lib has to be on your / partition (even if /usr and /var are separate). If /var is not separate, you have more places to look. If everything is separate, you may have more kernels installed than you need. Look in /lib/modules and see how many directories (one for each kernel) you have. I only keep 2 (current, and the last version that worked). If you're using the kernel meta-package for your arch, as new versions come out, it doesn't remove old versions, so they can pile up. You have to find the kernel version you want to remove and do so with your package manager (e.g. aptitude). Good luck. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
