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synaptic should provide users guidance when it fails to write to /boot

Bug #192230 reported by Khorne
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linux (Ubuntu)
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synaptic (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

When performing synaptic system update.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 15 21:28:17 2008
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: błąd w buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1)
Package: linux-image-debug-2.6.24-8-generic None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-debug-2.6.24-8-generic.list]
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: linux
Title: package linux-image-debug-2.6.24-8-generic None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-debug-2.6.24-8-generic.list] failed to install/upgrade: błąd w buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1)
Uname: Linux blacktosh 2.6.24-7-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 7 01:29:58 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

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Khorne (szczygiel-piotr) wrote :
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Your boot partition seems to be full - 'bÅ<82>Ä<85>d w buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): uruchomiony dpkg-deb podczas `./boot/vmlinux-debug-2.6.24-8-generic'): No space left on device'. You probably want to investigate removing some older version of the kernel to resolve this. Thanks in advance.

Changed in linux:
status: New → Incomplete
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Khorne (szczygiel-piotr) wrote :

Yes, You're right, I had not enough space because of other (older) versions. Although I think that there should be some additional information provided when using synaptic. I wouldn't send that report if it was clearly written in synaptic (or maybe I missed that info and bug report was automatically generated). I'd rather use apt-get :)

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Just to be clear you were using synaptic when this happened is that correct? I agree that if there is "No space left on device" the error message should be clearer and would like to target the bug to the correct package manager.

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Khorne (szczygiel-piotr) wrote : Re: [Bug 192230] Re: package linux-image-debug-2.6.24-8-generic None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-debug-2.6.24-8-generic.list] failed to install/upgrade: błąd w buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1)

Dnia 2008-02-15, Pt o godzinie 21:35 +0000, Brian Murray pisze:
> Just to be clear you were using synaptic when this happened is that
> correct? I agree that if there is "No space left on device" the error
> message should be clearer and would like to target the bug to the
> correct package manager.
 Yes, that was synaptic. And sorry for my English ;)

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Re: package linux-image-debug-2.6.24-8-generic None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-debug-2.6.24-8-generic.list] failed to install/upgrade: błąd w buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1)

I don't think it was your English, it's just most people use update-manager for performing updates.

Changed in linux:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
Changed in synaptic:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Dominik Stadler (dominik-stadler) wrote :

This is related to Bug #312491 where improving error messages for "out of space" during installation is discussed. Maybe this is even a duplicate of that one.

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 312491, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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