[Cialug] linux mint upgrade

[chris rheinherren]

My friend got help from the Linux Mint community forums. Looks like she had
a partition on her harddrive left over from a previous install that wasn't
reclaimed.

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 5:15 PM chris rheinherren <c.rheinherren at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>