Update Failed to install!

[steve7233]

Yep, lots of kernels there.

You really only need to keep the current and prior kernel for the current version of Kubuntu you are running, 12.04 in this case.

To regain valuable space in your root partition, remove completely, the following kernels and associated cruft:

In a konsole, you type:

sudo apt-get purge linux-image-x.x.x-xx-generic

replacing the x's with the numbers of the kernel shown above. Do this for each one. So, as an example, to remove completely the linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic kernel, you type:

sudo apt-get purge linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic

After you have removed all in the list above type:

sudo update-grub2

to update grub.

steve723@steve723-ASUS-Eee-PC-Netbook:~$ dpkg --list | grep linux-image | awk '{print $2}'
linux-image-3.2.0-30-generic
linux-image-3.2.0-31-generic
steve723@steve723-ASUS-Eee-PC-Netbook:~$

I think it may have been redundant to enter sudo update-grub2, since it looked like it automatically did that after each purge. I entered what you said so, now what?

[Snowhog]

You should have regained a significant amount of space on your root partition. In the konsole type:

df -h

And let's see just how much.

[SteveRiley]

I entered what you said so, now what?

You should have much more free space on your computer now.

You might also have a bunch of unnecessary headers files, too. Similar to the previous exercise, what's the output of:

dpkg --list | awk '/linux-headers/ {print $2}'

[steve7233]

You should have regained a significant amount of space on your root partition. In the konsole type:

df -h

And let's see just how much.

steve723@steve723-ASUS-Eee-PC-Netbook:~$ df -h

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sdb1       5.7G  4.3G  1.2G  80% /

udev            486M  4.0K  486M   1% /dev

tmpfs           199M  896K  198M   1% /run

none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock

none            497M  184K  497M   1% /run/shm

/dev/sdb5       9.2G  6.4G  2.4G  73% /home

/dev/sda1       221M   60M  150M  29% /boot

/dev/sda5       1.8G  702M  1.1G  41% /var

steve723@steve723-ASUS-Eee-PC-Netbook:~$

[Snowhog]

You regained 14% on the root partition (from 94% used to 80% used).

[steve7233]

You should have much more free space on your computer now.

You might also have a bunch of unnecessary headers files, too. Similar to the previous exercise, what's the output of:

dpkg --list | awk '/linux-headers/ {print $2}'

bash appears to be lost. Perhaps you made a typo. I copy and pasted the command into bash so, if you made a typo then maybe that’s why.

[SteveRiley]

Hm. I copy-pasted from here back into my Konsole, it works fine:

steve@t520:~$ [B]dpkg --list | awk '/linux-headers/ {print $2}'[/B]
linux-headers-3.5.0-16
linux-headers-3.5.0-16-generic
linux-headers-3.5.4-030504
linux-headers-3.5.4-030504-generic
linux-headers-generic

What errors are you seeing?

[vinnywright]

works @hear

vinny@Vinnys-HP-G62:~$ dpkg --list | awk '/linux-headers/ {print $2}'
linux-headers-3.2.0-23
linux-headers-3.2.0-23-generic
linux-headers-3.2.0-24
linux-headers-3.2.0-24-generic
linux-headers-3.2.0-25
linux-headers-3.2.0-25-generic
linux-headers-3.2.0-26
linux-headers-3.2.0-26-generic
linux-headers-3.2.0-27
linux-headers-3.2.0-27-generic
linux-headers-3.2.0-29
linux-headers-3.2.0-29-generic
linux-headers-3.2.0-30
linux-headers-3.2.0-30-generic
linux-headers-3.2.0-31
linux-headers-3.2.0-31-generic
linux-headers-3.4.1-030401
linux-headers-3.4.1-030401-generic
linux-headers-3.5.0-5
linux-headers-3.5.0-5-generic
linux-headers-generic
vinny@Vinnys-HP-G62:~$

ya I need to do some house cleaning

VINNY

[steve7233]

Hm. I copy-pasted from here back into my Konsole, it works fine:

steve@t520:~$ [B]dpkg --list | awk '/linux-headers/ {print $2}'[/B]
linux-headers-3.5.0-16
linux-headers-3.5.0-16-generic
linux-headers-3.5.4-030504
linux-headers-3.5.4-030504-generic
linux-headers-generic

steve723@steve723-ASUS-Eee-PC-Netbook:~$ dpkg --list | awk '/linux-headers/ {print $2}'
linux-headers-3.2.0-30
linux-headers-3.2.0-30-generic
linux-headers-3.2.0-31
linux-headers-3.2.0-31-generic
linux-headers-generic
steve723@steve723-ASUS-Eee-PC-Netbook:~$

Sorry I didn't notice the mouse missed the last '. I sometimes forget that computers are extremely literal and just missing one character in a command sequence can mess things up.

By the way there was no error message. There was only a > and nothing else. I had to Alt F4 and then relaunch bash.

[SteveRiley]

The lack of an error message followed by a right angle-bracket is normal. That means "Tell me more, obviously you aren't done yet."

Looks like you don't have a bunch of unnecessary header files. That's good.

[steve7233]

The lack of an error message followed by a right angle-bracket is normal. That means "Tell me more, obviously you aren't done yet."

Looks like you don't have a bunch of unnecessary header files. That's good.

I just noticed your in Seattle, I've been there a few times. I worked at Old and New Madagin Army Medical Center on Ft. Lewis. My dad was stationed at McChord AFB twice in fact his first time was when i was born at OMAMC. We'll time to greet the sand man. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[SteveRiley]

By the way there was no error message. There was only a > and nothing else. I had to Alt F4 and then relaunch bash.

Ctrl+C also works in this case.

[steve7233]

Thanks. So now what.

[SteveRiley]

Thanks. So now what.

I was simply providing an alternate way of escaping from that situation -- an incomplete multi-line command input.

More generally, it sounds like you don't have any extraneous kernel header files, and you've cleaned up the old kernel images. This freeed up valuable disk space, which I believe was the problem you were experiencing. Or is there something else we can help you with?

[claydoh]

Thanks. So now what.

From a quick glance your partitions seem fine, though making / a tad bigger may be useful if you keep running out of space. You may want to see what programs you have installed that you no longer need or use. Basic slimming down sort of thing.

You can also tell synaptic and muon to not save downloaded packages at all, which can help too.

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