Hi,
I was busy installing in update when some packages woudln't install, apparently because of a disk space problem.
The system tells me to try sudo apt-get -f install, which gives
hanlie@hanlie-Inspiron-N4020:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
language-pack-zh-hans kde-l10n-de language-pack-kde-de language-pack-kde-en
language-pack-de-base linux-headers-3.2.0-29 linux-headers-3.2.0-37
language-pack-kde-zh-hans language-pack-kde-en-base kde-l10n-engb
linux-headers-3.2.0-37-generic-pae linux-headers-3.2.0-29-generic-pae
language-pack-kde-de-base kde-l10n-zhcn language-pack-zh-hans-base
language-pack-de language-pack-kde-zh-hans-base
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
linux-headers-3.2.0-52 linux-headers-3.2.0-52-generic-pae
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-headers-3.2.0-52 linux-headers-3.2.0-52-generic-pae
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/12.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 67.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-3.2.0-52.
(Reading database ... 451516 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-headers-3.2.0-52 (from .../linux-headers-3.2.0-52_3.2.0-52.78_all.deb) ...
Unpacking linux-headers-3.2.0-52-generic-pae (from .../linux-headers-3.2.0-52-generic-pae_3.2.0-52.78_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.2.0-52-generic-pae_3.2.0-52.78_i386.deb (--unpack):
unable to create `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-52-generic-pae/include/config/usb/wdm.h.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-52-generic-pae/include/config/usb/wdm.h'): No space left on device
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.2.0-52-generic-pae_3.2.0-52.78_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I can't get rid of any old kernels etc. because I can't run apt-get or dpkg because of unmet dependencies that were created during the aborted update.
du -sm /*|sort -n gives:
0 /initrd.img
0 /initrd.img.old
0 /proc
0 /sys
0 /vmlinuz
0 /vmlinuz.old
1 /cdrom
1 /dev
1 /lost+found
1 /mnt
1 /root
1 /selinux
1 /srv
1 /tmp
2 /run
9 /bin
9 /sbin
14 /etc
16 /media
180 /opt
263 /boot
445 /var
1089 /home
1422 /lib
3898 /usr
I don't know what this means or what to do with this information.
Can someone please help? I would like to either uninstall the packages that are creating the unmet dependencies or open up some disk space so that the dependencies can be installed.
Thanks
I was busy installing in update when some packages woudln't install, apparently because of a disk space problem.
The system tells me to try sudo apt-get -f install, which gives
hanlie@hanlie-Inspiron-N4020:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
language-pack-zh-hans kde-l10n-de language-pack-kde-de language-pack-kde-en
language-pack-de-base linux-headers-3.2.0-29 linux-headers-3.2.0-37
language-pack-kde-zh-hans language-pack-kde-en-base kde-l10n-engb
linux-headers-3.2.0-37-generic-pae linux-headers-3.2.0-29-generic-pae
language-pack-kde-de-base kde-l10n-zhcn language-pack-zh-hans-base
language-pack-de language-pack-kde-zh-hans-base
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
linux-headers-3.2.0-52 linux-headers-3.2.0-52-generic-pae
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-headers-3.2.0-52 linux-headers-3.2.0-52-generic-pae
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/12.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 67.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-3.2.0-52.
(Reading database ... 451516 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-headers-3.2.0-52 (from .../linux-headers-3.2.0-52_3.2.0-52.78_all.deb) ...
Unpacking linux-headers-3.2.0-52-generic-pae (from .../linux-headers-3.2.0-52-generic-pae_3.2.0-52.78_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.2.0-52-generic-pae_3.2.0-52.78_i386.deb (--unpack):
unable to create `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-52-generic-pae/include/config/usb/wdm.h.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-52-generic-pae/include/config/usb/wdm.h'): No space left on device
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.2.0-52-generic-pae_3.2.0-52.78_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I can't get rid of any old kernels etc. because I can't run apt-get or dpkg because of unmet dependencies that were created during the aborted update.
du -sm /*|sort -n gives:
0 /initrd.img
0 /initrd.img.old
0 /proc
0 /sys
0 /vmlinuz
0 /vmlinuz.old
1 /cdrom
1 /dev
1 /lost+found
1 /mnt
1 /root
1 /selinux
1 /srv
1 /tmp
2 /run
9 /bin
9 /sbin
14 /etc
16 /media
180 /opt
263 /boot
445 /var
1089 /home
1422 /lib
3898 /usr
I don't know what this means or what to do with this information.
Can someone please help? I would like to either uninstall the packages that are creating the unmet dependencies or open up some disk space so that the dependencies can be installed.
Thanks