Re: failed upgrade to Buster
Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Mon Oct 28 11:19:13 2019 Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> I've just attempted to upgrade from Jessie to buster. All went well >> until the dist-upgrade stage, when it ran out of space in my /usr >> partition. which has 14G allocated. 1.4G of this appears to be the >> doc/ folder, which seems excessive. It has, for instance all the >> language files, whereas I only require en-GB. >> >> Can anyone please advise on how to get rid of this chaff? > I recently updated a machine from Jessie to Buster (although I did it > in two steps, Jessie -> stretch -> buster). I too ran out of space in > /usr. My 500GB disk has two partitions: one for /home and the other > for everything else. Rather than fight with things any longer than I > already was (nVidia driver problems), I just used gparted to shave > 10GB off my /home partition and give it to /, enlarging it from 10GB > to 20GB. Problem solved. Another possible way of solving this (or working around the problem) would be to temporary symlink some directories to /home, for example /var/cache/apt/archives to /home/apt-archives (or something like that). Grüße, S! -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
Re: failed upgrade to Buster
Tony van der Hoff composed on 2019-10-28 09:17 (UTC): > I've just attempted to upgrade from Jessie to buster. All went well > until the dist-upgrade stage, when it ran out of space in my /usr > partition. which has 14G allocated. 1.4G of this appears to be the doc/ > folder, which seems excessive. It has, for instance all the language > files, whereas I only require en-GB. > Can anyone please advise on how to get rid of this chaff? Did you purge the Jessie packages from apt's cache? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
Re: failed upgrade to Buster
On Mon Oct 28 11:19:13 2019 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > I've just attempted to upgrade from Jessie to buster. All went well > until the dist-upgrade stage, when it ran out of space in my /usr > partition. which has 14G allocated. 1.4G of this appears to be the > doc/ folder, which seems excessive. It has, for instance all the > language files, whereas I only require en-GB. > > Can anyone please advise on how to get rid of this chaff? I recently updated a machine from Jessie to Buster (although I did it in two steps, Jessie -> stretch -> buster). I too ran out of space in /usr. My 500GB disk has two partitions: one for /home and the other for everything else. Rather than fight with things any longer than I already was (nVidia driver problems), I just used gparted to shave 10GB off my /home partition and give it to /, enlarging it from 10GB to 20GB. Problem solved. -- cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
Re: failed upgrade to Buster
On 10/28/19, tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 28/10/2019 09:47, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> >> You might like the package localepurge >> >> Please read the warning in the package description carefully, though. > > Thanks for your swift reply, Jonas. I didn't try your suggestion, > because in the meantime I decided that after many upgrades, the system > was in such a messy state, that it would benefit from a full reload. > > So, I set about installing it from the latest netinst .iso image, which > went quite smoothly. > > Sadly, on reboot, I get the error: > file /grub/i386-pc/normal.mod not found. > Entering rescue mode... > > Now what to do? Hi, Tony.. I may or may not have stumbled upon a direct answer. Am primarily chiming in basically with a "me, too" but on a different, still Debian based distribution. Have been having ALL KINDS of hardware/software issues lately. Some of that has kicked me to the GRUB prompt interface instead of booting. When I go through the insmod/set root, yada-yada process, that Debian-based distro says the same thing. The "normal" module is not found... over and over and over. And yet I can do "ls" on the /boot/grub/i386-pc directory and SEE that module flash by with all of the others. And, yes, I'm using the correct commands that worked for other distros... only hours before. Your thread reminded me that my own to-do was to research this very topic so I just did. Without visiting any websites, I'm seeing a couple suggestions that we should specifically install GRUB2. Having just done a couple more debootstraps in the weeks prior to my own mishaps here, I remember seeing something of GRUB2 get dragged in as a dependency of grub-pc. Just checked my notes I take about just this kind of thing, and, yup, grub-pc brings grub2-common along with.. but *only* that one GRUB2 package. In a way, that sounds hopeful so I'll try this later myself. If all else fails *in my case*, a purge and reinstall is a safe possibility. Am already locked out of that partition so that negates the usual panic over getting locked out should the electricity fail before GRUB can be reinstalled on that partition, GRIN. It will take going into chroot to try GRUB2 in my own case. If it works, I'll share again. Good luck with your own instance.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *
Re: failed upgrade to Buster
On 28/10/2019 09:47, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Hi Tony, Quoting Tony van der Hoff (2019-10-28 10:17:13) I've just attempted to upgrade from Jessie to buster. All went well until the dist-upgrade stage, when it ran out of space in my /usr partition. which has 14G allocated. 1.4G of this appears to be the doc/ folder, which seems excessive. It has, for instance all the language files, whereas I only require en-GB. Can anyone please advise on how to get rid of this chaff? You might like the package localepurge Please read the warning in the package description carefully, though. Thanks for your swift reply, Jonas. I didn't try your suggestion, because in the meantime I decided that after many upgrades, the system was in such a messy state, that it would benefit from a full reload. So, I set about installing it from the latest netinst .iso image, which went quite smoothly. Sadly, on reboot, I get the error: file /grub/i386-pc/normal.mod not found. Entering rescue mode... Now what to do? Cheers, Tony
Re: failed upgrade to Buster
Hi Tony, Quoting Tony van der Hoff (2019-10-28 10:17:13) > I've just attempted to upgrade from Jessie to buster. All went well > until the dist-upgrade stage, when it ran out of space in my /usr > partition. which has 14G allocated. 1.4G of this appears to be the > doc/ folder, which seems excessive. It has, for instance all the > language files, whereas I only require en-GB. > > Can anyone please advise on how to get rid of this chaff? You might like the package localepurge Please read the warning in the package description carefully, though. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature
