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Re: [LUG] Debian Etch Kernel upgrade problem

 

On Tuesday 12 December 2006 12:05, Henry Bremridge wrote:
> `./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)
<snip>
>
> 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
>

Apt wants to write to /lib which is on your root partition, but you've only 
got 20MB free - you'll need more than that.

You need to free some space up or maybe reduce the size of one of your 
existing partitions and expand your root partition?

Regards,
David.

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David Johnson
www.david-web.co.uk

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