synaptic broken (SOLVED)

[skyjacker]

I was downloading changes in synaptic when it quit working. I x'd out of it and restarted, and when it came up I got this message "E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report." I opened terminal, pasted the command in, and got this message "skyjacker@Home-PC:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
[sudo] password for skyjacker:
dpkg: failed to write status record about `ntpdate' to `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device" Now what do I do?

[Rog131]

Re: synaptic broken

...No space left on device...

Disk full ?


Checking > FAQ: Free Disk Space

=>

What tells "df -h" at the konsole ?
and
how big (or small) is your root partition ? ( > FAQ: How to Partition)

sudo fdisk -l

If your disk is full:

Try:

sudo apt-get clean

> APT HOWTO

When you install a package APT retrieves the needed files from the hosts listed in /etc/apt/sources.list, stores them in a local repository (/var/cache/apt/archives/), and then proceeds with installation

In time the local repository can grow and occupy a lot of disk space. Fortunately, APT provides tools for managing its local repository: apt-get's clean and autoclean methods.

apt-get clean removes everything except lock files from /var/cache/apt/archives/ and /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/.

Cleaning:

> Cleaning up a Ubuntu GNU/Linux system
> HOWTO: Cleaning local package archives
> Privacy Cleanup 101
> HOWTO : Cleaning old KDE thumbnails
> HOWTO: Removing unnecessary entries from the grub menu list
(a.k.a removing old kernel packages and rewriting new menu.lst)


If your disk is not full

Maybe > dpkg tell no free space but I have free space what's happened?



Links:

> dpkg: failed to write status record about `dcraw' to `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device
> no spcae left on device
> Top 20 Kubuntu FAQs & Answers
> ...

[skyjacker]

Re: synaptic broken

ROG 131, here is what you asked for. thanks for the help so far. Now what?
skyjacker@Home-PC:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb6 3.0G 3.0G 0 100% /
tmpfs 498M 0 498M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 498M 100K 498M 1% /var/run
varlock 498M 0 498M 0% /var/lock
udev 498M 204K 498M 1% /dev
tmpfs 498M 12K 498M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 498M 2.4M 495M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile
/dev/sdb8 27G 992M 24G 4% /home
overflow 1.0M 36K 988K 4% /tmp

skyjacker@Home-PC:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for skyjacker:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x23213b72

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 902 15035 113531355 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1 19457 156288321 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1 713 5727109+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 714
763 401593+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 764 901 1108453+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 15036 15385 2811343+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 15386 19457 32708308+ 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x65ec38f3

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1 0 0 Empty
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2 3 38913 312552607+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 3 32532 261297193+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 32533 35082 20482843+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 35083 35464 3068383+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb8 35465 38913 27704061 83 Linux

[dibl]

Re: synaptic broken

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb6 3.0G 3.0G 0 100% /

There's your problem, just as Rog suspected. You didn't do yourself any favors making your Linux partition only 3.0G.

There is no great "workaround" for your situation -- *buntu needs 5G for a comfortable installation (i.e. one in which you don't spend time like this ....).

To get through today, you can issue

sudo apt-get autoclean

and

sudo apt-get autoremove

and then delete everything in /var/log/ (since you're probably headed to a reinstallation on a larger partition soon). Then search Ubuntu forums for "disk cleanup" and you can find things like this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...63&postcount=3

[skyjacker]

Re: synaptic broken

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb6 3.0G 3.0G 0 100% /

There's your problem, just as Rog suspected. You didn't do yourself any favors making your Linux partition only 3.0G.

There is no great "workaround" for your situation -- *buntu needs 5G for a comfortable installation (i.e. one in which you don't spend time like this ....).

To get through today, you can issue

sudo apt-get autoclean

and

sudo apt-get autoremove

and then delete everything in /var/log/ (since you're probably headed to a reinstallation on a larger partition soon). Then search Ubuntu forums for "disk cleanup" and you can find things like this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...63&postcount=3

I am wanting to re-install anyway and go to an ubuntu/kubuntu choice desktop. I did it about 2 years ago but can't remember how. Can anyone help on that? Thanks