apt-get -d upgrade, apt-get -d dist-upgrade wont download anything

[Thomas Schweikle]

After executing: "LANG=C apt-get -d upgrade"

# LANG=C apt-get -d upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  linux-image-generic-lts-raring
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages have been kept back:
  gimp-plugin-registry grive kde-runtime libavformat53 linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic linux-tools-generic
  merkaartor plasma-scriptengine-javascript qlandkartegt usb-modeswitch-data
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Download complete and in download only mode

And: "LANG=C apt-get -d dist-upgrade"
# LANG=C apt-get -d dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  linux-image-generic-lts-raring
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages have been kept back:
  libavformat53 merkaartor plasma-scriptengine-javascript qlandkartegt usb-modeswitch-data
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Download complete and in download only mode

apt-get only tells download complete", but never downloads anything. The packages given to be upgraded are not downloaded and never installed:
/var/cache/apt/archives# ll
total 332K
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 320K Feb 26 01:57 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 26 01:57 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 26 01:50 partial/
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Oct 19 2011 lock

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: apt 0.9.15.4ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-18.32~precise1-generic 3.11.10.4
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 26 01:59:12 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-19 (860 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
 TERM=screen-bce
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-02-24 (1 days ago)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Does it never install anything or was this a one time issue? In the development release there are regularly situations where packages may not be installable because there dependencies are not all available.

Additionally, do you have -proposed enabled? You really shouldn't for the development release.

[Felix (apoapo)]

My error is slightly different but started about the same time as yours!
It says "disk full", but the disk has 6GB+ space left!
I cannot install any other packages either.
I believe somethign patched the apt system useless. Did you make any progression?

"
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-headers-generic : Depends: linux-headers-3.11.0-18-generic but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
"

"
:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-3.11.0-18 linux-headers-3.11.0-18-generic
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
6 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/13.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 75.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 293828 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-headers-3.11.0-18 (from .../linux-headers-3.11.0-18_3.11.0-18.32_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.11.0-18_3.11.0-18.32_all.deb (--unpack):
 unable to create `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.11.0-18/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mediabay.h.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/src/linux-headers-3.11.0-18/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mediabay.h'): No space left on device
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error
                                                                              dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Unpacking linux-headers-3.11.0-18-generic (from .../linux-headers-3.11.0-18-generic_3.11.0-18.32_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.11.0-18-generic_3.11.0-18.32_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 unable to create `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.11.0-18-generic/include/config/blk/dev/nvme.h.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/src/linux-headers-3.11.0-18-generic/include/config/blk/dev/nvme.h'): No space left on device
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error
                                                                              dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.11.0-18_3.11.0-18.32_all.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.11.0-18-generic_3.11.0-18.32_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
"

"
$df:

/dev/sda2 53719532 44685104 6282532 88% /
none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 4022264 4 4022260 1% /dev
tmpfs 813808 1332 812476 1% /run
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none 4069028 2064 4066964 1% /run/shm
none 102400 40 102360 1% /run/use
"

[Felix (apoapo)]

Okay, fo me it is the "inodes problem"

df -ih gives me 100% inodes usage on my / partition. You may check this too?

The following command leads me to the folder which has the most files in it:

sudo find . -xdev -type f | cut -d "/" -f 2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

In my case it is in /root.

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