Kubuntu 10.04 on Thumb Drive Has Problems Updating Software

[paulcalabro]

I've scoured for answers on this one, but no luck.
I've used usb-creator to install Kubuntu v10.04 on my 4gig thumb drive.
Runs fine.
However, when I do apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.. after all the updates have been applied.. rebooting becomes a problem. i'm stuck at a black screen.I don't have the message in front of me (because I'm doing a fresh install), but I think it had something to do with updating the kernel during that upgrade. maybe the boot manager is no longer in sync with files it was pointing to??
Anyone see anything similar to this? Know any fixes?

thanks in advance!

Paul

[Snowhog]

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 on Thumb Drive Has Problems Updating Software

4Gb is not very large. My guess is you've run out of space. From the 'black screen' - a terminal - type:

df -h

On my system, the output looks like:

paul@mybrainonlinux:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3       7.9G 3.8G 3.8G 51% /
none         998M 368K 998M  1% /dev
none         1002M   0 1002M  0% /dev/shm
none         1002M 104K 1002M  1% /var/run
none         1002M   0 1002M  0% /var/lock
none         1002M   0 1002M  0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda7       20G 1.5G  18G  8% /home

Ignore the 'none' entries. You want to look at the entry for your root partiton. If Use% is at/near 100%, you are out of space on your thumb drive.