[xubuntu-users] Security update fails in 12.04

[kelmark]

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Updating Xubuntu 12.04.2. with security updates pushed by Ubuntu yielded
the error notification below.  I don't have a clue how to fix this: "No
space left on device".  I have checked space with GParted, Thunar and
Disk Usage Analyzer and I have gBytes of unused space everywhere I can
think to look.  The file linux-libc-dev 3.2.0-55.85 has a "!" in the S
column of Synaptic.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

installArchives() failed: (Reading database ... (Reading database ...
5%% <more> (Reading database ... 100%% (Reading database ... 590564
files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace linux-libc-dev 3.2.0-55.85 (using
.../linux-libc-dev_3.2.0-56.86_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement linux-libc-dev ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-libc-dev_3.2.0-56.86_amd64.deb (--unpack):
  unable to create `/usr/include/linux/const.h.dpkg-new' (while
processing `./usr/include/linux/const.h'): No space left on device
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-libc-dev_3.2.0-56.86_amd64.deb

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Albert,

I believe this occurs when you have too many old kernel headers that
have been replaced in synaptic package manager and you have a separate
boot partition ?

FIRST try to remove unnecessary packages resulting from installing and
uninstalling software:
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove


AND Lastly go to System/Synaptic Package Manager and search on:
linux-headers and click on Installed in left pane.

Maybe you have alot of old header versions out there that may be removed?
I only show three versions and
My amd64 was updated to version 3.2.0-56.86 the other day.
from 3.2.0-55.85 and I show a
3rd out there as 3.2.0-54.82

I run Ubuntu Tweak http://ubuntu-tweak.com/
(UbuntuTweak has a nice janitor function that seems to work well for Me)

Don