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? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>>> >>> > >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -- > Scott Raun > sraun at fireopal.org > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >