Comment 4 for bug 298212

I bumped into this bug also. Used johnboy45's idea: (http://johnboy45.wordpress.com/2006/09/19/fixing-no-space-left-on-device-error-in-ubuntu-linux/)

<code>
sudo apt-get clean
sudo dpkg --configure -a
</code>

although it did not bypass the crash (and dpkg still says: "Aborted (core dumped)") -
at least rootfs goes from 100% usage to 66%.