Public bug reported: When upgrading from Trusty to Xenial it is possible to have a disk that is half empty but has run out of inodes due to uncleared kernel updates.
This of course causes the upgrade to fail with catastrophic and irreversible results Not sure what pre-flight checks upgrader does, but checking for sufficient inodes as well as disk space (plus checking if the apt cache is ok like unattended upgrades does) might be worth doing. In the meantime back to trying to recover the corrupted server... :-) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.10 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-147.196-generic 3.13.11-ckt39 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-147-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29 Architecture: amd64 CrashDB: ubuntu Date: Fri Nov 23 11:06:35 2018 PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade trusty uec-images ** Description changed: When upgrading from Trusty to Xenial it is possible to have a disk that is half empty but has run out of inodes due to uncleared kernel updates. This of course causes the upgrade to fail with catastrophic and irreversible results Not sure what pre-flight checks upgrader does, but checking for sufficient inodes as well as disk space (plus checking if the apt cache is ok like unattended upgrades does) might be worth doing. - In the meantime back to trying to recover this server... :-) + In the meantime back to trying to recover the corrupted server... :-) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.10 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-147.196-generic 3.13.11-ckt39 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-147-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29 Architecture: amd64 CrashDB: ubuntu Date: Fri Nov 23 11:06:35 2018 PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1804803 Title: do-release-upgrade fails due to lack of inodes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1804803/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs