Public bug reported:
This a parallel to bug 1477455 regarding update-manager and a full /boot
partition.
[Impact]
ubuntu-release-upgrader provides generic instructions if a system being upgrade
is calculated to not have enough free space for the upgrade to succeed. The
instructions include using apt clean and emptying trash. This message won't
help if you have a separate boot partition that is low on free space though.
[Test Case]
1) Create a file to be used as a /boot partition (dd if=/dev/zero of=fake-boot
bs=1024 count=204800)
2) mkfs -t ext3 fake-boot
3) copy your real /boot somewhere
4) sudo mount -t ext3 fake-boot /boot
5) copy the files from step 3 to /boot
6) fill up /boot so there is less 30MB free space
7) run 'do-release-upgrade -p' (-p is for proposed)
With the current version of ubuntu-release-upgrader you'll see an error
message with instructions to "empty your trash and remove temporary
packages." With the version of ubuntu-release-upgrader in -proposed
you'll receive a message regarding using "sudo apt autoremove".
[Regression Potential]
We are just changing the strings used in the error message, which will
introduce untranslated strings but that is better than leaving people with
systems that cannot update.
** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Importance: High
Assignee: Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Status: In Progress
** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Xenial)
Importance: Medium
Status: Triaged
** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Zesty)
Importance: Medium
Status: Triaged
** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Artful)
Importance: High
Assignee: Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Status: In Progress
** Tags: artful xenial zesty
** Also affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Zesty)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Artful)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Xenial)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Generic instructions for dealing with full partitions don't help much
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