Comment 6 for bug 75713

The good news is that I got a proper "disk full" warning and a graceful exit when trying to Upgrade from Edgy to Feisty yesterday (2007-09-27). So it looks like the Distribution Upgrade part of Adept is fixed.

The bad news is that I still had a very similar problem to the one described in this Bug with a regular Update (not an Upgrade) in Edgy. I had not connected Kubuntu to the Internet in a while. When I connected it again, Adept found a large number of packages requiring an Update. It crashed and exited with a confusing error message before updating the Linux Kernel Headers to 2.6.17-12, though (sorry, I should have written down exactly what the error message was). I realized that I was probably low on disk space, but the error message did not say that clearly enough. Everything seemed to be OK for the rest of that session. But after restarting, all I got was the Login screen -- after entering any valid User ID and Password, the Kubuntu Desktop would not load, only the Login screen would return. It did not matter what options I selected in the Login screen.

I restarted again, and got into Recovery Mode from the GRUB menu. From the Root command prompt, tried to run APT-GET UPDATE, then APT-GET REMOVE WINE to try to make room by removing the WINE package that I was no longer using. I got an error message suggesting that I run APT-GET -f -CLEAN. This time, I got an error message saying, in effect, no room to install Linux Kernel Headers to 2.6.17-12.

I rebooted from a Live CD and used a Partition Editor to make the main Linux (/) partition larger. Rebooted again, went back into GRUB > Recovery Mode, and ran APT-GET -f -CLEAN again. This time it worked OK. After rebooting once more, I was finally able to log back into the Kubuntu Desktop.

If Adept had only warned me that disk space was too low before trying to install the Linux Kernel Headers, I may have been able to save a lot of time.

Anyway, after I got my Desktop back, I tried to do the suggested Distribution Upgrade to Feisty, and got a proper error message about low disk space (I still didn't have the over 600 MB that this upgrade would have required). And I still have a working Edgy system.

So the Distribution Upgrade part of Adept handled low disk space properly in Edgy, but the regular Update did not.