I apologize. I'm having a bad day, #1. And #2 I had 2 tabs open and read the wrong thread which was completely unrelated to mine. again, sorry.
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Brian Murray <br...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Kireol - I selected your bug report as a duplicate of this one because > of the following error message in your DpkgTerminalLog.txt file attached > to your bug report. > > "gzip: stdout: No space left on device > update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-32-generic" > > Looking at your df output /boot is on a separate partition and it in > fact doesn't have much free space. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a > duplicate bug report (797759). > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798414 > > Title: > update-initramfs does not check for free space > > Status in “initramfs-tools” package in Ubuntu: > New > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: initramfs-tools > > When generating a new initramfs there is no check for available free > space, subsequently its possible for update-initramfs to fail due to a > lack of free space. This is resulting in package installation > failures for initramfs-tools. For example: > > Setting up initramfs-tools (0.98.8ubuntu3) ... > update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic > > gzip: stdout: No space left on device > E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1 > update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic > dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status > 1 > > WORKAROUND: > > Remove unused kernels using computer janitor or manually free space on > your partition containing the /boot file system. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/798414/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798414 Title: update-initramfs does not check for free space To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/798414/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
