space check in /boot failed (was: package update-manager 1:0.81 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /tmp/tmp9yZgSJ/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2))

[Matthew Craig]

Binary package hint: update-manager

==== Error message ====
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
dpkg: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "logging/___init___.py", line 753, in emit
  File "logging/___init___.py", line 731, in flush
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descrptor
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==== Analysis ====
/boot filled up on Feisty -> Gutsy upgrade.
Would have been better to know that there was insufficient space prior to downloading the upgrade!
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==== Remedy ====
Looks like I have to expand /boot, then restart the installation. I will try to find apt-get commands that will support an upgrade-resume.
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ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 19 22:22:06 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /tmp/tmp9yZgSJ/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.81
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.81 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /tmp/tmp9yZgSJ/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Uname: Linux salamander 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:31:23 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the log files from '/var/log/dist-upgrade/' to this bugreport as attachments to your bug report? Thanks in advance.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

There is a check for the free space in /boot. It seems to have failed for you, please attach the logs so that I can try to analyze what went wrong.

Thanks,
 Michael

[Matthew Craig (matthew-t-craig)]

Attached are the files from /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in gzip format (cat * |gzip >dist-upgrade-output.gz)
They may not be useful to you. I was not able to recover after the upgrade, and I reinstalled Feisty and performed a fresh upgrade. The output files will be the result of that second, successful upgrade attempt.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments.

Don't hesitate to submit any new bug.