Second stage of installer freeze when it runs out of disk space (dapper flight 2)

[Arthur Peters]

The first stage of the install went without a hitch, but after the reboot the
installer froze at aprox. 50% and some investigation showed that it had run out
of disk space while installing a package.

From VT4 (retyped so typos are possible)

dpkg: error processing xkeyboard-config (--configure):
 failed to srite status record about `ttf-bengali-fonts' to
`/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device
dpkg: failed to flush status information to `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space
left on device
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: failed to flush status information to `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space
left on device
E: dpkg was interupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct
the problem
E: Cound not regain the system lock! (Perhaps another apt or dpkg is running?)
Press Enter to continue.

The installer should be more intellegent and either avoid filling up the space
with packages (440MB of packages were in /var/cache/apt) and such or should
refuse to install on a partition that small. (See Bug #21551)

Also on the main installer screen (VT1), the progress bar simply froze with no
message telling what happened.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 9459.