[Bug 1085218] Re: upgrade to kernel 2.6.32-45 fails with "disk full error"

[Pablo Piaggio]

Hi Phillip Susi (psusi) . Thanks for taking interest.

Your question pointed me in the right direction. I was almost out of
nodes:

$ df -i /
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda5             625856  618015    7841   99% /

and the culprit were the linux-headers:

$ find /usr/src -type f | wc -l
355,112

That was more than *three hundred and fifty thousand* files!

After cleaning the house:

$ df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda5             625856  192891  432965   31% /

$ ls /usr/src/
linux-headers-2.6.32-44              linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic-pae
linux-headers-2.6.32-44-generic-pae  nvidia-current-195.36.24
linux-headers-2.6.32-45              virtualbox-ose-3.1.6

$ find /usr/src/ -type f | wc -l
28,276

Then, I was successfully able to upgrade my system, and this is not
longer a problem.

Thanks again Phillip!

P.S.:  In the next days I'll be filling this bug as a generic event that
eventually will happen to any installation after a few years  (in this
case 10.04). The amount of files in the linux-headers is insanely huge,
and there's no automatic maintenance.

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Title:
  upgrade to kernel 2.6.32-45 fails with "disk full error"

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Unable to upgrade the package 'linux-headers-2.6.32-45' either using
  Update Manager or apt-get.

  Error: There are almost 3GB of free space, but apt-get says no disk
  space. See below for details.

  I attempted the usual tricks like apt-get clean, autoclean,
  autoremove, but it made no change.

  Kind Regards.

  $ sudo apt-get upgrade

  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    linux-headers-2.6.32-45
  1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 10.2MB of archives.
  After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
  Get:1 http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main linux-headers-2.6.32-45 2.6.32-45.100 [10.2MB]
  Fetched 10.2MB in 0s (11.7MB/s)                   
  (Reading database ... 598967 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to replace linux-headers-2.6.32-45 2.6.32-45.99 (using .../linux-headers-2.6.32-45_2.6.32-45.100_all.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement linux-headers-2.6.32-45 ...
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-45_2.6.32-45.100_all.deb (--unpack):
   unable to create `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-45/arch/s390/include/asm/nmi.h.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-45/arch/s390/include/asm/nmi.h'): No space left on device
  No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error
                                                                                dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-45_2.6.32-45.100_all.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  $ df -h

  Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  /dev/sda5             9.4G  6.2G  2.8G  70% /
  none                  2.0G  388K  2.0G   1% /dev
  none                  2.0G  212K  2.0G   1% /dev/shm
  none                  2.0G  360K  2.0G   1% /var/run
  none                  2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /var/lock
  none                  2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /lib/init/rw
  /dev/sda6              94G   45G   45G  51% /home

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: apt 0.7.25.3ubuntu9.14
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-45.99-generic-pae 2.6.32.60+drm33.26
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-45-generic-pae i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Nov 30 15:33:28 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apt

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