[LUG] Debian Etch Kernel upgrade problem

[Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx>]

For some reason aptitude update and apt-get upgrade are giving me
problems with the installation of the latest kernel update

Messages are as follows

Apt-get upgrade

    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    You might want to run ‘apt-get -f install’ to correct these.
    The following packages have unmet dependencies.
      linux-image-2.6-486: Depends: linux-image-2.6.18-3-486 but it is not
      installed
      E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

apt-get -f install 

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies...Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  linux-image-2.6.18-3-486
  Suggested packages:
    linux-doc-2.6.18
  The following NEW packages will be installed
    linux-image-2.6.18-3-486
  0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
  3 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0B/16.6MB of archives.
  After unpacking 51.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
  Preconfiguring packages ...
  (Reading database ... 85357 files and directories currently installed.)
  Unpacking linux-image-2.6.18-3-486 (from
  .../linux-image-2.6.18-3-486_2.6.18-7_i386.deb) ...
  Done.
  dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-3-486_2.6.18-7_i386.deb (--unpack):
   failed in buffer_write(fd) (9, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during 
`./lib/modules/2.6.18-3-486/kernel/fs/nls/nls_cp950.ko': No space left on device
  dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
  Running postrm hook script /sbin/update-grub.
  Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
  Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found:
  /boot/grub/menu.lst
  Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
  Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-486
  Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-486
  Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-486
  Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386
  Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

  Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-3-486_2.6.18-7_i386.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I do not really understand why I have a message "No space left on
device" when my file system is as follows

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             250M  217M   20M  92% /
udev                   10M   68K   10M   1% /dev
devshm                110M     0  110M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda9              67G   14G   50G  23% /home
/dev/hda8             361M  8.1M  334M   3% /tmp
/dev/hda5             4.6G  1.6G  2.8G  37% /usr
/dev/hda6             2.8G  313M  2.4G  12% /var

I also do not seem able to remove the earlier kernels: I get the same
message

Any assistance, gratefully appreciated


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Henry
Tue Dec 12 12:05:13 GMT 2006

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