Thanks! That was exactly the problem. I noticed it shortly after submitting the report. I moved all the *.bak files to my ~/Desktop folder (I figured I could restore them with a live cd if necessary) and then ran "sudo dpkg --configure -a" which completed with no output (as opposed to the "no space left" message it was previously giving me). I then restarted (with 2.6.24-18) and everything seems to be fine. My two questions are: what are the chances that something is still messed up somewhere (like what part of the dist upgrade might not have finished)? My boot partition has about 40MB, is that not enough? Some tutorial I read said it was, but it won't be if every dist upgrade adds a new kernel version without removing the old ones. Repartitioning (or even reformating) wouldn't be the end of the world, I just want to understand better what I could do better in managing my space. I'm not even completely sure whether I need the boot section to be on a separate partition. Also, I would be happy to repost these questions in the forum if that would be a more appropriate place for them.
-- Upgrading to 8.04 LTS and got update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-18-generic. something about a bad file descriptor. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238201 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
