Public bug reported: Upgrading from 17.04 to 17.10:
Previous installations of Ubuntu would eventually fail due to lack of space in any one of the filesystems, but at least update-manager and/or do-release-upgrade told me which filesystem was lacking the space and how much it needed, so I could do an online extend since I'm using LVM. The newer update-manager doesn't do that, even in the terminal output, and even by do-release-upgrade. It just tells me: ========== Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating the changes Calculating the changes Not enough free disk space Restoring original system state Aborting Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done === Command terminated with exit status 1 (Wed Nov 1 12:44:09 2017) === I understand that Ubuntu is geared towards the novice user, but hiding this kind of information is not useful to him/her too. I eventually found out that the logs had a cryptically formatted space requirement output: [12:57] [3762] [patola@ovo log]% tail -20 /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log 2017-11-01 12:43:59,445 DEBUG Free space on /boot: 400269312 2017-11-01 12:43:59,445 DEBUG Dir /var/cache/apt/archives mounted on /var 2017-11-01 12:43:59,445 DEBUG Free space on /tmp: 4931989504 2017-11-01 12:43:59,445 DEBUG Free space on /home: 3533549568 2017-11-01 12:43:59,445 DEBUG Dir /tmp mounted on /tmp 2017-11-01 12:43:59,446 DEBUG fs_free contains: '{'/home': <DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeCache.MyCache.checkFreeSpace.<locals>.FreeSpace object at 0x7f175f3e1f60>, '/var/cache/apt/archives': <DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeCache.MyCache.checkFreeSpace.<locals>.FreeSpace object at 0x7f175f3e1e10>, '/tmp': <DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeCache.MyCache.checkFreeSpace.<locals>.FreeSpace object at 0x7f175f3e1cf8>, '/boot': <DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeCache.MyCache.checkFreeSpace.<locals>.FreeSpace object at 0x7f175f3e1e80>, '/var': <DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeCache.MyCache.checkFreeSpace.<locals>.FreeSpace object at 0x7f175f3e1e10>, '/usr': <DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeCache.MyCache.checkFreeSpace.<locals>.FreeSpace object at 0x7f175f3e1e48>, '/': <DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeCache.MyCache.checkFreeSpace.<locals>.FreeSpace object at 0x7f175f3e1d68>}' 2017-11-01 12:44:00,388 DEBUG linux-image-4.13.0-16-lowlatency (new-install) added with 14042324 to boot space 2017-11-01 12:44:05,555 DEBUG dir '/var/cache/apt/archives' needs '5775199340' of '<DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeCache.MyCache.checkFreeSpace.<locals>.FreeSpace object at 0x7f175f3e1e10>' (1316454400.000000) 2017-11-01 12:44:05,556 DEBUG dir '/usr' needs '1734142976' of '<DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeCache.MyCache.checkFreeSpace.<locals>.FreeSpace object at 0x7f175f3e1e48>' (12781453312.000000) 2017-11-01 12:44:05,556 DEBUG dir '/usr' needs '52428800' of '<DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeCache.MyCache.checkFreeSpace.<locals>.FreeSpace object at 0x7f175f3e1e48>' (11047310336.000000) 2017-11-01 12:44:05,556 DEBUG dir '/boot' needs '120526816' of '<DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeCache.MyCache.checkFreeSpace.<locals>.FreeSpace object at 0x7f175f3e1e80>' (400269312.000000) 2017-11-01 12:44:05,556 DEBUG dir '/tmp' needs '5242880' of '<DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeCache.MyCache.checkFreeSpace.<locals>.FreeSpace object at 0x7f175f3e1cf8>' (4931989504.000000) 2017-11-01 12:44:05,556 DEBUG dir '/' needs '10485760' of '<DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeCache.MyCache.checkFreeSpace.<locals>.FreeSpace object at 0x7f175f3e1d68>' (3914502144.000000) 2017-11-01 12:44:05,556 DEBUG dir '/tmp' needs '0.0' of '<DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeCache.MyCache.checkFreeSpace.<locals>.FreeSpace object at 0x7f175f3e1cf8>' (4926746624.000000) 2017-11-01 12:44:05,556 DEBUG dir '/usr' needs '0.0' of '<DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeCache.MyCache.checkFreeSpace.<locals>.FreeSpace object at 0x7f175f3e1e48>' (10994881536.000000) 2017-11-01 12:44:05,556 ERROR Not enough free space: ['/var'] 2017-11-01 12:44:05,566 DEBUG abort called 2017-11-01 12:44:05,575 DEBUG openCache() 2017-11-01 12:44:05,575 DEBUG failed to SystemUnLock() (E:Not locked) 2017-11-01 12:44:09,030 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 88780 [12:57] [3763] [patola@ovo log]% ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04 Package: update-manager 1:17.04.8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-38.42-lowlatency 4.10.17 Uname: Linux 4.10.0-38-lowlatency x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.5 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7 Date: Wed Nov 1 12:51:16 2017 GsettingsChanges: b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true' b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'864' b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false' b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'1229' b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'int64 1509546701' InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-02 (1187 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: update-manager UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2017-11-01 (0 days ago) ** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade zesty ** Tags added: dist-upgrade -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1729368 Title: [REGRESSION] update-manager no longer informs space needed and filesystem To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1729368/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs