More on the package problem... Rather than being simply running out of space, it's an ugly race/loop thing I think. Turns out that both the backports and the generic modules are installed - from the same kernel version running.
When trying to upgrade or remove the backports modules, we end up with the following: cp: `/lib/modules/2.6.27-14-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.ko' and `/tmp/mkinitramfs_C18636/lib/modules/2.6.27-14-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.ko' are the same file cp: `/lib/modules/2.6.27-14-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.ko' and `/tmp/mkinitramfs_C18636/lib/modules/2.6.27-14-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.ko' are the same file cp: `/lib/modules/2.6.27-14-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.ko' and `/tmp/mkinitramfs_C18636/lib/modules/2.6.27-14-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.ko' are the same file cp: `/lib/libselinux.so.1' and `/tmp/mkinitramfs_C18636/lib/libselinux.so.1' are the same file cp: `/lib/klibc-zUXi_KjK5ZQAIyc8jlwme9T6a4U.so' and `/tmp/mkinitramfs_C18636/lib/klibc-zUXi_KjK5ZQAIyc8jlwme9T6a4U.so' are the same file cp: `/lib/libsepol.so.1' and `/tmp/mkinitramfs_C18636/lib/libsepol.so.1' are the same file cp: cannot copy a directory, `/', into itself, `/tmp/mkinitramfs_C18636/' cp: cannot copy a directory, `/', into itself, `/tmp/mkinitramfs_C18636/' cp: cannot copy a directory, `/', into itself, `/tmp/mkinitramfs_C18636/' cp: cannot copy a directory, `/', into itself, `/tmp/mkinitramfs_C18636/' /tmp/mkinit... yada yada just fills up slowly and painfully until kaboom - no space left... have tried dpkg --forece-overwrite-dir -P <package-name> to no avail. Very frustrating and I sense we are about to lose a potential convert to linux! Thanks, Denis On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Robert Collins <robe...@robertcollins.net> wrote: > type 'mount' in a terminal and look for filesystems. > > One of them will be low - < 200MB or even less of space. > > One possibility is '/boot', which is where kernel initramfs' are built > and saved. These can add up to quite a bit of space. > > -Rob > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Denis Crowdy Department of Contemporary Music Studies, Macquarie University +61 2 9850 6787 http://www.dcms.mq.edu.au http://motekulo.blogspot.com/ http://www.melanesianmusic.org CRICOS Provider No 00002J This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of DCMS or Macquarie University. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
