Edgy to Feisty upgrade reports erroneous "Not enough free disk space" message

[bhaskar]

Binary package hint: update-manager

When upgrading from Kubuntu Edgy to Feisty, I received an error message that I needed to free at least 319MB disk space for /var/cache/apt/archives. So, I created /home/apt on a file system with 33GB available space, pointed /var/cache/apt at /home/apt and re-ran adept_updater. It still reports the problem. How can I work around the problem? Thank you very much.

-- Bhaskar

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bhaskar@ridley:~$ df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda4 12G 9.8G 2.0G 84% /
varrun 1014M 120K 1014M 1% /var/run
varlock 1014M 4.0K 1014M 1% /var/lock
procbususb 10M 120K 9.9M 2% /proc/bus/usb
udev 10M 120K 9.9M 2% /dev
devshm 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 12G 2.1G 9.5G 18% /media/hda1
/dev/mapper/hda2-aes 47G 14G 33G 30% /home
tmpfs 1014M 18M 997M 2% /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/volatile
bhaskar@ridley:~$ ls -l /var/cache/apt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2007-06-30 18:46 /var/cache/apt -> /home/apt
bhaskar@ridley:~$ ls -l /var/cache/apt/
total 20864
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 16 2007-06-30 18:22 archives
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11221535 2007-06-30 18:54 pkgcache.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10210997 2007-06-30 18:54 srcpkgcache.bin
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[Marco Maini (maini10)]

Thanks for your report. Do you have used Adept to upgrade to Feisty or update-manager?

[bhaskar (bhaskar)]

Thank you for the response. I don't remember whether I was using adept or update-manager (I think adept, because I was running Kubuntu, but I can't be sure). I think finally accomplished the upgrade with aptitude.

Regards
-- Bhaskar

[Marco Maini (maini10)]

Are you able to complete this dist-upgrade? I suppose that your link to /home/apt creates some problem to apt. May be aptitude hasn't this problem. However, please empty apt cache with command sudo apt-get clean, when you need disk space for upgrade.

[bhaskar (bhaskar)]

Yes, I was able to complete the upgrade (I am a Linux user since 1999, a computer professional for over 30 years, and very comfortable with command line tools). However, this was a home PC - we all run Linux at home - and I was hoping that the consumer GUI based upgrade process would be simple and smooth.

In any case, thank you very much for your response. If you are able to fix the issue, it will make [K]ubuntu work better for its target consumer.

Regards
-- Bhaskar

[Marco Maini (maini10)]

As discussed with other members of Bugs Squad in irc, I keep open this report as New. Feel free to report any other problem.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I believe bug 122810 and bug 123321 are dupes.

[Marco Maini (maini10)]

I mark this bug as duplicate of 122810, as suggested by Rolf Leggewie. Thanks again.