* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-03 07:04]: > As I stated in the bug report originally, the drives are not full. > I included the output of 'df -h' to illustrate this also. Maybe my > bug report got truncated or something. I did not miss the error > message. The anomally of this error ocurring whilst the disks have > plenty of free spac is the reason I filed the bug report. Thank you > for following up on the report.
Well, it shows that your root partition is quite small and full: /dev/hda1 267M 239M 28M 90% / The kernel package installs modules in /lib, which according to your partition layout is on /, and / is almost full... | failed in buffer_write(fd) (9, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during | `./lib/modules/2.6.15-1-686/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.ko': No space left on device It fails while writing to /lib, which is on /, which is 90% full. 27826:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~] du -hcs /lib/modules/2.6.16-1-686 43M /lib/modules/2.6.16-1-686 43M total So here the kernel takes 43 MB but you only have 28 MB free. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
