** Description changed: [Test Case] If you don't have a separate /boot partition you can create a file which will be loopback mounted as boot and then test having a full /boot. 1) Install xenial hwe backport kernel 2) dd if=/dev/zero of=fake-boot bs=1024 count=204800 3) mkfs -t ext3 fake-boot 4) copy your real /boot somewhere 5) sudo mount -t ext3 fake-boot /boot 6) copy the files from your old /boot into the /boot 7) fill /boot up some more e.g. fallocate -l 50M filler.txt 8) upgrade from Trusty to Xenial (do-release-upgrader) + With the version of the release-upgrader in the archive you'll receive + an error regarding "gzip: stdout: No space left on device... mkinitramfs + failure cpio 141 gzip 1". Could not install 'linux-image-4.4.0-45-generic' ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:16.04.17 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-45.66~14.04.1-generic 4.4.21 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-45-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 CrashDB: ubuntu CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Wed Nov 9 20:11:19 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-05-24 (535 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_CA:en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bashSourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader Symptom: release-upgrade UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-11-10 (0 days ago) VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstate.tar.gz: Error: command ['pkexec', 'cat', '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz'] failed with exit code 127: Error creating textual authentication agent: Error opening current controlling terminal for the process (`/dev/tty'): No such device or address VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
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