Dist-Upgrade has free space problems

[Jonas Eberle]

Binary package hint: update-manager

During upgrade from 7.10 » 8.04, the update manager aborted:

The upgrade needs a total of 961M free space on disk '/'. Please free at least an additional 422M of disk space on '/'.

I freed the space, started again, and got the same error, this time demanding for 1400MB of space. I managed to free the space by deleting gimp, openoffice and eclipse - then I ran the update-manager again. It then stated:

The upgrade needs a total of 2000M free space on disk '/'. Please free at least an additional 422M of disk space on '/'.

This is ridiculous... (or is it because I freed space by deleting programs in ubuntu-desktop that have to be reinstalled and thus needing the space?)

This differs from "sudo do-release-upgrade" which says: The upgrade needs a total of 1581M free space
on disk '/'. Please free at least an additional 7419k of disk space
on '/'.

I am installing via "do-release-upgrade" at the moment, but this might be bug in the update-manager.

If you need more information, please step up. /var/log/messages | syslog does not contain an entry from this error. Any
update-manager: v0.81.3

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

This sounds like more like a usability issue than a bug. The reason you see those messages is that update-manager will put back ubuntu-desktop during the ugprade. When you run do-release-upgrade it will not do that, it runs in "server" upgrade mode by default.

[Jonas Eberle (jonas-eberle)]

I got it done now but still feel it is not what it should say. Anyway this might be better treated as wish-item.
Thanks for your reply.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Is this a dupe of bug 290200

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

?