I'm pretty sure that was it. Part of the problem where Ubuntu will upgrade 
kernels but won't automatically remove old ones...

On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, Scott Raun wrote:

> You specified you could create the files yourself - was that in the
> relevant directories?  Any chance you're out of inodes?
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 02:03:26PM -0600, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote:
>> I should amend - dpkg-deb -x to /tmp will extract the files.
>>
>> When I try to extract to root, I get:
>>
>> tar:
>> ./usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-56-generic-pae/include/config/pppoatm.h:
>> Cannot open: No space left on device
>> tar: ./usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-56-generic-pae/include/config/mouse:
>> Cannot mkdir: No space left on device
>> tar: ./usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-56-generic-pae/include/config/mouse:
>> Cannot mkdir: No space left on device
>>
>>
>> etc, etc. Again, / is nowhere NEAR full. I have no idea where it's trying
>> to find space and not succeding.
>>
>> On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote:
>>
>>> Should've mentioned, I did a clear, and it did re-download, same issue.
>>> When I try dpkg manually it does the same thing. dpkg-deb -c shows the
>>> files, dpkg-deb -x does extract them but I'm not sure how to parlay
>>> that into an install.
>>>
>>> On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, Michael Moore wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
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