Help! I cannot upgrade to New Ubuntu release 12.04.4 LTS

[Rick Magraw]

Nils,

I apologize if I am the culprit, and taking up some much time and effort.

I did redo (copy and paste) the ln command line, and have now gotten back
to the original error message about not enough disk space, albeit now
requiring a smaller amount ,i.e., 776 N on "/'

(I did not redo the mv command line).

Not enough free disk space
The upgrade has aborted.
The upgrade needs a total of 1,623 M of free space on disk '/'
Please free at least an additional space of 776 M on disk '/'
Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations
using sudo apt- get clean.


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Rick Magraw <rsmagraw at gmail.com> wrote:

> History as per Paul's instrux:
>
> rsm at rsm-laptop:~$ history | grep archive
>    23  sudo mv /var/cache/apt/archives/ /home
>    24  sudo ln -s /home/archives/var/cache/apt/
>    27  sudo in -s /home/archives/var/cache/apt/
>    31  ls -ld /var/cache/apt/archives
>    39  drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 2014-04-27 11:17 archives
>    43  sudo ln -s /home/archives /var/cache/apt/
>    44  history | grep archive
> rsm at rsm-laptop:~$
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Rick Magraw <rsmagraw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As per Paul's instructions
>>
>> rsm at rsm-laptop:~$  ls -l /var/cache/apt
>> total 32220
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16519059 2014-04-28 16:11 pkgcache.bin
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16443005 2014-04-28 15:20 srcpkgcache.bin
>>
>> rsm at rsm-laptop:~$  ls -l /home
>> total 24
>> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 2014-04-27 11:17 archives
>> drwx------  2 root root 16384 2008-10-15 09:34 lost+found
>> drwxr-xr-x 46 rsm  rsm   4096 2014-04-29 13:11 rsm
>> rsm at rsm-laptop:~$
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Rick Magraw wrote:
>>> > rsm at rsm-laptop:~$ ls -ld /var/cache/apt/archives
>>> > ls: cannot access /var/cache/apt/archives: No such file or directory
>>> > rsm at rsm-laptop:~$
>>> >
>>> > N.B. I did manually type in the original command lines.
>>>
>>> Well, that explains it. :) I think you mistyped the ln command because
>>> the "archives" directory is gone and there is no link with that name. It
>>> would also match the error message. The directory
>>> "/var/cache/apt/archives/partial" is indeed missing because the parent
>>> directory is missing as well and the file "/var/cache/apt/archives/lock"
>>> can't be opened because there is no directory for it. I Think it would
>>> be sufficient to run the ln command again:
>>>
>>> sudo ln -s /home/archives /var/cache/apt/
>>>
>>>
>>> Nils
>>>
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