Maybe that .deb file is corrupt? If you clear out your cache, or at least delete offending .deb file does it re-download it and work? -- Michael Moore On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:35 PM, <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > Ok, so I did an apt-get -u dist-upgrade, and it errors out with this: > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux- > headers-3.2.0-56-generic-pae_3.2.0-56.86_i386.deb (--unpack): > unable to create `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0- > 56-generic-pae/include/config/pppoatm.h.dpkg-new' (while processing > `./usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-56-generic-pae/include/config/pppoatm.h'): > No space left on device > > So yeah, it can't create that file because no space left on device. > > Except there's plenty of space left on device: > > root at tiger:/# df -h /usr/src/ > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda5 4.0G 1.8G 2.0G 47% /usr > > In fact there's no filesystem on this machine that's even close to full. > Here are the 'real' filesystems: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda3 4.0G 1.2G 2.6G 32% / > /dev/sda8 9.9G 151M 9.2G 2% /tmp > /dev/sda1 504M 98M 382M 21% /boot > /dev/sda7 4.0G 1.8G 2.0G 48% /home > /dev/sda5 4.0G 1.8G 2.0G 47% /usr > /dev/sda6 4.0G 455M 3.3G 12% /var > /dev/sda9 2.0G 70M 1.9G 4% /usr/local > > I can manually create the files it wants, too. > > Anyone have any ideas? > > -- > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Support the digitization of the Iron County Miner newspaper archives Like this project on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/digitizeicm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20131120/5329684e/attachment.html>