Re: dpkg error!! says no space left in device
Ron Johnson
> i was installing new packages into my lenny system via synaptic.. when
> it was applying the changes, i got the following error message:
>
> *E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to
> correct the problem.
> E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
> *
> so i tried dpkg --configure -a
>
> i got this message
> *dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
> failed to write status record about `libmng-dev' to
> `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device
> *
> what should i do??
$ du -m
# apt-get clean
$ du -m
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E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
i got this message
failed to write status record about `libmng-dev' to `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device
Kent West
> i was installing new packages into my lenny system via synaptic.. when
> it was applying the changes, i got the following error message:
>
> E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
> so i tried dpkg --configure -a
>
> i got this message
> failed to write status record about `libmng-dev' to
> `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device
> what should i do??
This means that the partition on which your /var/cache/apt/archives
directory sits is full.
If this is on the same partition as your /home directory, you might can
delete/move some movies or other large files to an external disk, etc,
to free up some space.
At any rate, you'll have to do something to free up space in this
directory (and this may or may not affect other parts of your system,
depending on if this (or more of the /var directory) is on a separate
partition or not).
If you have a lot of older .debs in that directory that you no longer
need, you can run "aptitude autoclean" to clear out the ones that are no
longer (by default) installable. Or you can clean out all the .debs with
"aptitude clean". Or you can manually delete a few .debs to make enough
room to install a few smaller packages, then install those few smaller
packages and then delete their .debs, and continue on in this fashion.
But if you're running low on space in your /var/apt/cache/archives
directory, you're probably running low elsewhere, and this method
probably won't help much.
If /lib/modules is on the same partition, you might have three of seven
older kernel directories there, which you can remove to free up space.
You can always uninstall stuff to perhaps help, or move/recreate
partitions to resize them as needed.
"df -h" and such (like "df -h /var/cache/apt/archives") will give you a
good feel for how much space is free where.
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Kent
Thierry Chatelet
> No space left on device
What's the output of df ?
An a bit of google give me:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/dpkg-error-no-space-left-on-device-603279/
A. F. Cano
> ...
> failed to write status record about `libmng-dev' to `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No
> space left on device
>
> what should i do??
Clean up some files to make space? Check particularly that some log
files in /var/log have not grown to unreasonable size, or that there
isn't something unreasonbale in /tmp or /var/tmp. Of course all this
depends on your partitioning scheme.
A.