Dist-Upgrade has free space problems
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
During upgrade from 7.10 » 8.04, the update manager aborted:
The upgrade needs a total of 961M free space on disk '/'. Please free at least an additional 422M of disk space on '/'.
I freed the space, started again, and got the same error, this time demanding for 1400MB of space. I managed to free the space by deleting gimp, openoffice and eclipse - then I ran the update-manager again. It then stated:
The upgrade needs a total of 2000M free space on disk '/'. Please free at least an additional 422M of disk space on '/'.
This is ridiculous... (or is it because I freed space by deleting programs in ubuntu-desktop that have to be reinstalled and thus needing the space?)
This differs from "sudo do-release-upgrade" which says: The upgrade needs a total of 1581M free space
on disk '/'. Please free at least an additional 7419k of disk space
on '/'.
I am installing via "do-release-
If you need more information, please step up. /var/log/messages | syslog does not contain an entry from this error. Any
update-manager: v0.81.3
Thanks for your bugreport.
This sounds like more like a usability issue than a bug. The reason you see those messages is that update-manager will put back ubuntu-desktop during the ugprade. When you run do-release-upgrade it will not do that, it runs in "server" upgrade mode by default.