[Cialug] linux mint upgrade

[chris rheinherren]

Hey all,

I have a friend who is trying to upgrade the kernel on her Linux Mint
system using the Update Manager.

She has like 8GB of free space on her harddrive.

Current kernel version is 4.15.0-38-generic.

She gets these error messages:

E:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-modules-4.15.0-39-generic_4.15.0-39.42~16.04.1_amd64.deb:
cannot copy extracted data for './boot/System.map-4.15.0-39-generic' to
'/boot/System.map-4.15.0-39-generic.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space
left on device)
E:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-4.15.0-39-generic_4.15.0-39.42~16.04.1_amd64.deb:
cannot copy extracted data for './boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-39-generic' to
'/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-39-generic.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space left
on device)
That's the first error message.
The second one is:
Gtk-WARNING : Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita", at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 96, <> line 2.
Gtk-WARNING : Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita", at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 96, <> line 2.
Gtk-WARNING : Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita", at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 114, <> line 2.
Gtk-WARNING : Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita", at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 114, <> line 2.
(Reading database ... 450316 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack
.../linux-modules-4.15.0-39-generic_4.15.0-39.42~16.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-modules-4.15.0-39-generic (4.15.0-39.42~16.04.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-modules-4.15.0-39-generic_4.15.0-39.42~16.04.1_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
 cannot copy extracted data for './boot/System.map-4.15.0-39-generic' to
'/boot/System.map-4.15.0-39-generic.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space
left on device)
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full
error

  Preparing to unpack
.../linux-image-4.15.0-39-generic_4.15.0-39.42~16.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-image-4.15.0-39-generic (4.15.0-39.42~16.04.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-4.15.0-39-generic_4.15.0-39.42~16.04.1_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
 cannot copy extracted data for './boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-39-generic' to
'/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-39-generic.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space left
on device)
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full
error

  dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-modules-4.15.0-39-generic_4.15.0-39.42~16.04.1_amd64.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-4.15.0-39-generic_4.15.0-39.42~16.04.1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu8.13) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-39-generic:
 linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-39-generic depends on linux-im


Any ideas?

Thanks

Chris