Comment 0 for bug 868362

I ran apt-get install ubuntu-desktop on a server machine, to get it to download a big lot of packages. In parallel, another terminal, I filled up the disk with dd while the apt download was happening.

Sure enough, suddenly apt stopped and stalled:

Get:133 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main liblaunchpad-integration-3.0-1 i386 0.1.54 [8,554 B]
Get:134 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libaspell15 i386 0.60.6-6 [609 kB]
Get:135 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libhunspell-1.2-0 i386 1.2.14-4 [145 kB]
Get:136 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libenchant1c2a i386 1.6.0-3 [85.9 kB]
Get:137 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libgail-3-0 i386 3.2.0-0ubuntu2 [23.9 kB]
Get:138 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libgstreamer0.10-0 i386 0.10.35-1 [763 kB]
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libgstreamer0.10-0 i386 0.10.35-1
  Error writing to output file - write (28: No space left on device) [IP: 91.189.92.170 80]
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 i386 0.10.35-1
  Bad header line [IP: 91.189.92.170 80]
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libicu44 i386 4.4.2-2
  Bad header line [IP: 91.189.92.170 80]
Get:139 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libproxy0 i386 0.3.1-2ubuntu6 [37.2 kB]
Get:140 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main gsettings-desktop-schemas all 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 [15.9 kB]
Get:141 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main glib-networking i386 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 [47.2 kB]
Get:142 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libsoup2.4-1 i386 2.36.0-0ubuntu1 [198 kB]
Get:143 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libxslt1.1 i386 1.1.26-7 [164 kB]
Get:144 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libwebkitgtk-3.0-common all 1.4.3-0ubuntu3 [554 kB]
Get:145 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 i386 1.4.3-0ubuntu3 [7,052 kB]
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 i386 1.4.3-0ubuntu3
  Error writing to output file - write (28: No space left on device) [IP: 91.189.88.40 80]
12% [Waiting for headers]

It just stays there, timing out for each package, and then tries the next one, times out again, and so on. It will take forever.