Comment 25 for bug 1173468
Revision history for this message
| Geoff Williams (geoff-geoffwilliams) wrote Re: kernel-image package doesn't check free space on /boot | #25 |
© 2004
Canonical Ltd.
•
Terms of use
•
Data privacy
•
Contact Launchpad Support
•
Blog
•
Careers
•
System status
•
0e1f616
(Get the code!)
Flo,
If you were just out of disk space on /boot like I was -- and it looks like you were, then the simplest way to recover is just to uninstall some old kernels as you likely have a few installed, eg do:
$ dpkg -l|grep "ii[[:space:
and remove the oldest version, making sure that this isn't the running kernel, eg:
$ apt-get remove linux-image-
Once you've done this, apt will re-run the packing for half-installed linux-image package from the new ubuntu version, although perhaps your system developed other problems from the installer aborting at a different point and leaving your system in an inconsistent state.
A lot of advice out there says to have a ~ 100MB boot partition which doesn't allow many kernel images to be installed these days and there are a few systems out there that refuse to boot if the root partition is massive so this may catch a few people...