[xubuntu-users] Security update fails in 12.04

[Albert Wagner]

On 11/09/2013 02:42 AM, Elfy wrote:
> On 09/11/13 01:02, Albert Wagner wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
> What do you see for the / line if you run this command in a terminal
>
> df -h
>
> Elfy
>
/dev/sda1       9.2G  4.4G  4.4G  50% /

Thanks, Elfy. The suggestions of Kelmark(Don) did the trick.  I had over 
30 unused linux-headers*.