Thanks! That did it. It turns out I had more than ten old kernel files taking up space.
J On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Stefan Bader <[email protected]>wrote: > martinba wrote: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/sda6 289G 13G 262G 5% / > > /dev/sda3 193M 192M 0 100% /boot > > / is ok, in your case /boot is completely full. The reason is very likely, > that you have gathered quite a lot of older kernels. if you do a > > #> ls -la /boot/vmlinuz-* > > you should see a list of kernels. chose the oldest number (be aware the > sort > order is lexically not numerically, so 2.6.24-2 would show up after > 2.6.24-10, > but 2.6.24-10 is newer). > Say you want to delete 2.6.24-2 (I just picked a random number), then you > would > type this command to see which packages related to this kernel are > installed: > > #> dpkg -l | grep -- -2.6.24-2- > > Likely there will be a linux-image, a linux-ubuntu-modules and a > linux-restricted-modules (maybe linux-headers and linux-backports-modules). > > Now you would remove those with: > > #> sudo dpkg --purge <put here the package names from above seperated > with space> > > Be careful not to delete the currently running kernel version (likely > 2.6.24-24). > If you post the output of the "ls -la" shown above, I can help you on the > selection. > But if you start with the oldest one and check the "df" output for /boot > you could > see when you again have 20-30M free, which should be enough. > > -- > package linux-image-generic 2.6.24.25.27 failed to install/upgrade: > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463401 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “linux-meta” package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > updating left this package unconfigured > > ProblemType: Package > Architecture: i386 > Date: Thu Oct 29 11:06:22 2009 > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 > ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia > Package: linux-image-generic 2.6.24.25.27 > PackageArchitecture: i386 > SourcePackage: linux-meta > Title: package linux-image-generic 2.6.24.25.27 failed to install/upgrade: > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Uname: Linux 2.6.24-25-generic i686 > -- package linux-image-generic 2.6.24.25.27 failed to install/upgrade: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463401 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
