Generic instructions for dealing with full partitions don't help much
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Brian Murray | ||
Xenial |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Brian Murray | ||
Zesty |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Brian Murray | ||
Artful |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Brian Murray |
Bug Description
This a parallel to bug 1477455 regarding update-manager and a full /boot partition.
[Impact]
ubuntu-
[Test Case]
1) Create a file to be used as a /boot partition (dd if=/dev/zero of=fake-boot bs=1024 count=204800)
2) mkfs -t ext3 fake-boot
3) copy your real /boot somewhere
4) sudo mount -t ext3 fake-boot /boot
5) copy the files from step 3 to /boot
6) fill up /boot so there is less 30MB free space
7) run 'do-release-upgrade -p' (-p is for proposed)
With the current version of ubuntu-
[Regression Potential]
We are just changing the strings used in the error message, which will introduce untranslated strings but that is better than leaving people with systems that cannot update.
Related branches
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Artful): | |
assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
status: | New → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Zesty): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
tags: | added: artful xenial zesty |
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Zesty): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Zesty): | |
assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
tags: | added: id-5982561eb1d9aa0d07be953f |
tags: | removed: verification-failed |
This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu- release- upgrader - 1:17.10.7
--------------- release- upgrader (1:17.10.7) artful; urgency=medium
ubuntu-
* DistUpgrade/ DistUpgradeCont roller. py: Provide better instructions when an
upgrade is aborted due to a lack of free space in a partition.
(LP: #1721882)
* update demoted.cfg, demoted.cfg.xenial, mirrors.cfg
-- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Fri, 06 Oct 2017 15:16:34 -0700