[Bug 312491] Re: Out-of-disk-space is not reported to the user when installing/updating packages fails

[Alexander Rødseth]

If a package that is essential for network connectivity needs to be
downgraded, it's likely that the user wants the previous package to be
available.

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Title:
  Out-of-disk-space is not reported to the user when installing/updating
  packages fails

Status in computer janitor:
  New
Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “synaptic” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  when volume becomes full, no programs can be removed because updates
  and previous attempted installs try to reassert themselves, then the
  package handler closes itself.

  ProblemType: Package
  Architecture: i386
  Dependencies:
   libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1ubuntu11
   gcc-4.3-base 4.3.2-1ubuntu11
   findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu3
   libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
  ErrorMessage: failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/perl/5.10.0/IO.pm'
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: perl-base 5.10.0-11.1ubuntu2
  SourcePackage: perl
  Title: package perl-base 5.10.0-11.1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/perl/5.10.0/IO.pm'
  Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686

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