Comment 5 for bug 312491

Hi Dominik Stadler,

Thanks!! I partitioned my disk space and allocated 10 GB for the ubutu. I
believe,
i believe, i need to increase the space and re-install the software.

Thanks for your suggestion!!

Regards,
*Shanmuga sundaram M.K
*
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Dominik Stadler <email address hidden>wrote:

> I spent a few more minutes to wade through a list of similar bug reports
> and duplicated most of them to this one. This shows that this is a very
> common problem. The install/update of some package fails because of out
> of space, but the user does not know about it and is just presented the
> "package install failed" message which leads to many unnecessary bug
> reports.
>
> I think the current list of duplicates warrants setting the importance
> for this bug to something like "high", can somebody with enough rights
> do this?
>
> I also adjusted the title to show the intent of the bug a bit better.
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - Failure to update add/ or remove programs
> + Out-of-disk-space is not reported to the user when installing/updating
> packages fails
>
> ** Also affects: synaptic (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> --
> Out-of-disk-space is not reported to the user when installing/updating
> packages fails
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/312491
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “synaptic” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> when volume becomes full, no programs can be removed because updates and
> previous attempted installs try to reassert themselves, then the package
> handler closes itself.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: i386
> Dependencies:
> libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1ubuntu11
> gcc-4.3-base 4.3.2-1ubuntu11
> findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu3
> libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> ErrorMessage: failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb
> during `./usr/lib/perl/5.10.0/IO.pm'
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: perl-base 5.10.0-11.1ubuntu2
> SourcePackage: perl
> Title: package perl-base 5.10.0-11.1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade:
> failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during
> `./usr/lib/perl/5.10.0/IO.pm'
> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686
>