package linux-signed-image-4.4.0-53-generic 4.4.0-53.74 failed to install/upgrade: package linux-signed-image-4.4.0-53-generic is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status 'half-installed')

[Tyler Simpson]

I'm new to Ubuntu and was tying to update through the "software store". I went to the terminal and ran sudo apt dist-upgrade.
I got this back:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gstreamer1.0-tools libgssapi-krb5-2 libgstreamer1.0-0 libkrb5-3
  libkrb5support0
5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 1,046 kB/1,235 kB of archives.
After this operation, 7,168 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 linux-signed-image-4.4.0-53-generic amd64 4.4.0-53.74 [4,002 B]
Err:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libkrb5-3 amd64 1.13.2+dfsg-5ubuntu2
  500 No space left on device
Err:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libgstreamer1.0-0 amd64 1.8.3-1~ubuntu0.1
  500 No space left on device
Fetched 4,002 B in 1min 7s (59 B/s)
E: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/k/krb5/libkrb5-3_1.13.2+dfsg-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb 500 No space left on device

E: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gstreamer1.0/libgstreamer1.0-0_1.8.3-1~ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb 500 No space left on device

E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

Next I ran: sudo apt dist-upgrade --fix-missing
and got back:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gstreamer1.0-tools libgssapi-krb5-2 libgstreamer1.0-0 libkrb5-3
  libkrb5support0
5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 1,042 kB/1,235 kB of archives.
After this operation, 7,168 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Err:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libkrb5-3 amd64 1.13.2+dfsg-5ubuntu2
  500 No space left on device
Err:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libgstreamer1.0-0 amd64 1.8.3-1~ubuntu0.1
  500 No space left on device
dpkg: error processing package linux-signed-image-4.4.0-53-generic (--configure):
 package linux-signed-image-4.4.0-53-generic is not ready for configuration
 cannot configure (current status 'half-installed')
E: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/k/krb5/libkrb5-3_1.13.2+dfsg-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb 500 No space left on device

E: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gstreamer1.0/libgstreamer1.0-0_1.8.3-1~ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb 500 No space left on device

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: linux-signed-image-4.4.0-53-generic 4.4.0-53.74
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-62.83-generic 4.4.40
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-62-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
AptOrdering:
 linux-signed-image-4.4.0-53-generic: Configure
 NULL: ConfigurePending
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 2 20:33:00 2017
DpkgTerminalLog:
 dpkg: error processing package linux-signed-image-4.4.0-53-generic (--configure):
  package linux-signed-image-4.4.0-53-generic is not ready for configuration
  cannot configure (current status 'half-installed')
ErrorMessage: package linux-signed-image-4.4.0-53-generic is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status 'half-installed')
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-11-30 (65 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.1
 apt 1.2.19
SourcePackage: linux-signed
Title: package linux-signed-image-4.4.0-53-generic 4.4.0-53.74 failed to install/upgrade: package linux-signed-image-4.4.0-53-generic is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status 'half-installed')
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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