Comment 6 for bug 291381

That did the trick. Thank you!

Ted

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Charles Koleczek <email address hidden>wrote:

>
> (Executive summary:
> Uninstall the old kernels with Synaptic.
> Simply deleting the files in /boot won't satisfy the Distribution Upgrade.)
>
> I was seeing this problem as well. My /boot is 100MB, and I had gone and
> freed up ~70+MB by deleting the files for my old kernels. Still the
> installer complained that it wanted 75.7MB free in /boot. This happened to
> me on both a network upgrade and trying an installation from an alternative
> install CD.
> In my /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log I see...
>
> 2008-10-31 10:32:19,078 DEBUG Dir /usr mounted on /
> 2008-10-31 10:32:19,079 DEBUG Dir /var mounted on /
> 2008-10-31 10:32:19,079 DEBUG Free space on /boot: 73176064
> 2008-10-31 10:32:19,080 DEBUG Dir /var/cache/apt/archives mounted on /
> 2008-10-31 10:32:19,080 DEBUG Dir /home mounted on /
> 2008-10-31 10:32:19,080 DEBUG fs_free contains: '{'/var':
> <DistUpgradeController
> .FreeSpace object at 0x5503390>, '/home': <DistUpgradeController.FreeSpace
> objec
> t at 0x5503390>, '/boot': <DistUpgradeController.FreeSpace object at
> 0x5503510>,
> '/usr': <DistUpgradeController.FreeSpace object at 0x5503390>, '/':
> <DistUpgrad
> eController.FreeSpace object at 0x5503390>, '/var/cache/apt/archives':
> <DistUpgr
> adeController.FreeSpace object at 0x5503390>}'
> 2008-10-31 10:32:19,178 DEBUG linux-image-2.6.24-21-generic
> (upgrade|installed)
> added with 12582912 to boot space
> 2008-10-31 10:32:19,201 DEBUG linux-image-2.6.22-14-generic
> (upgrade|installed)
> added with 12582912 to boot space
> 2008-10-31 10:32:19,209 DEBUG linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic
> (upgrade|installed)
> added with 12582912 to boot space
> 2008-10-31 10:32:19,266 DEBUG linux-image-2.6.24-16-generic
> (upgrade|installed)
> added with 12582912 to boot space
> 2008-10-31 10:32:19,309 DEBUG linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic (new-install)
> added w
> ith 12582912 to boot space
> 2008-10-31 10:32:19,312 DEBUG linux-image-2.6.24-18-generic
> (upgrade|installed)
> added with 12582912 to boot space
> 2008-10-31 10:32:20,269 DEBUG dir '/var/cache/apt/archives' needs
> '559011054.0'
> of '<DistUpgradeController.FreeSpace object at 0x5503390>'
> (25410088960.000000)
> 2008-10-31 10:32:20,270 DEBUG dir '/usr' needs '665604096.0' of
> '<DistUpgradeCon
> troller.FreeSpace object at 0x5503390>' (24851077906.000000)
> 2008-10-31 10:32:20,270 DEBUG dir '/usr' needs '52428800' of
> '<DistUpgradeContro
> ller.FreeSpace object at 0x5503390>' (24185473810.000000)
> 2008-10-31 10:32:20,270 DEBUG dir '/boot' needs '75497472' of
> '<DistUpgradeContr
> oller.FreeSpace object at 0x5503510>' (73176064.000000)
> 2008-10-31 10:32:20,271 ERROR not enough free space on /boot (missing
> 2321k)
> 2008-10-31 10:32:35,372 DEBUG openCache()
> 2008-10-31 10:32:35,663 DEBUG /openCache()
>
> ...hmmm, I've deleted the old kernel files from /boot, but if I
> interpret the aborted install log correctly it looks like the old
> kernels are still being used in some calculation of the space on /boot.
> I launched synaptic package manager and searched on "kernel". I
> selected my older kernels for complete removal. Upon removing them and
> launching the upgrade again I get past the /boot free space error and am
> prompted to start the upgrade.
>
> --
> update-manager asking for unreasonable free space on /boot
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291381
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>
> Status in "update-manager" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: update-manager
>
> I am running 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 on a system with multiple software RAID
> volumes. Aside from the lagging development of 64-bit operating systems,
> there is a completely realistic possibility that this bug is the result of
> third party software and/or my complicated software RAID scheme.
>
> I spent weeks trying to upgrade my kernel to 2.6.24-21 from 2.6.24-19. I
> kept getting errors asking for anywhere from 60-80MB of free space on /boot.
> Since the largest files in my 100MB boot partition are the previous kernels,
> each weighing it around 8MB, it seems completely unreasonable for
> update-manager to need 80MB of free space on /boot. As has been stated in
> another report, running "sudo apt-get clean" does not remedy this problem.
> Finally, after disabling the repositories for my satanic edition (SE) theme,
> I was able to complete the update. I thought I had solved the problem, but
> then...
>
> After completing the update, I attempted to upgrade to 8.10 with the SE
> repositories (my only third party repositories) still disabled, at which
> point I received the following error message:
> "Not enough free disk space
> The upgrade aborts now. The upgrade needs a total of 101M free space on
> disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 69.4M of disk space on
> '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former
> installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'."
>
> I am frustrated and at a loss for what to do next. I can't think of any
> reason for update-manager to need over 100MB of free space on /boot,
> especially considering that the last time I checked, 100MB was on the upper
> end of what was reasonable to set aside for a /boot partition. My boot
> partition is a RAID1 partition that spans 5 drives and neighbors my RAID0
> swap partition. Expanding it would therefore require destroying and
> rebuilding both my boot and swap partitions, and is not really an option for
> me at this point.
>