On a 13.04 install, apt-get crashed during a dist-update. Now, apt-get says 3 updates failed to install, namely linux-image-extra-3.8.0-25-generic linux-image-generic linux-generic (exact error message at end.) doing a df -h, I see my boot partition is at 96% capacity: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/xubuntu-root 114G 29G 79G 27% / none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1% /dev tmpfs 378M 1004K 377M 1% /run none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 1.9G 80K 1.9G 1% /run/shm none 100M 12K 100M 1% /run/user /dev/sda2 229M 208M 9.3M 96% /boot /dev/sda1 190M 126K 190M 1% /boot/efi /home/redoubts/.Private 114G 29G 79G 27% /home/redoubts This reminds me of bugs past, where you guys resolved to clear out old kernel version from boot so this wouldn't happen. I thought that a fix was pushed into 13.04/12.04.2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/798414 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/923876 exact apt-get error: """ $ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Setting up linux-image-extra-3.8.0-25-generic (3.8.0-25.37) ... Running depmod. update-initramfs: deferring update (hook will be called later) Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d. run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal 3.8.0-25-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-25-generic run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.8.0-25-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-25-generic update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-25-generic gzip: stdout: No space left on device E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1 update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-25-generic with 1. run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1 Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-extra-3.8.0-25-generic.postinst line 1010. dpkg: error processing linux-image-extra-3.8.0-25-generic (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-generic: linux-image-generic depends on linux-image-extra-3.8.0-25-generic; however: Package linux-image-extra-3.8.0-25-generic is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing linux-image-generic (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-generic: linux-generic depends on linux-image-generic (= 3.8.0.25.43); however: Package linux-image-generic is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing linux-generic (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-extra-3.8.0-25-generic linux-image-generic linux-generic E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) """