I run an Ubuntu 14.04 Server. After attempting to update and upgrade, I ran into the problems of the /boot being full. After some googling (and looking on here), I ran into this blog post that detailed how to clean out the unused kernels. I followed all the steps, but for the final step (to actually clean out the old kernels), I get this:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-image-extra-3.16.0-52-generic : Depends: linux-image-3.16.0-52-generic but it is not going to be installed
linux-image-extra-3.16.0-57-generic : Depends: linux-image-3.16.0-57-generic but it is not going to be installed
linux-image-extra-3.16.0-59-generic : Depends: linux-image-3.16.0-59-generic but it is not going to be installed
linux-image-generic-lts-utopic : Depends: linux-image-3.16.0-59-generic but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
So, naturally I took the advice and tried running 'apt-get -f install'. That gave me this result:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-3.16.0-51 linux-headers-3.16.0-51-generic
linux-image-3.16.0-51-generic linux-image-extra-3.16.0-51-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
linux-image-3.16.0-57-generic linux-image-3.16.0-59-generic
Suggested packages:
fdutils linux-lts-utopic-tools linux-headers-3.16.0-57-generic
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-image-3.16.0-57-generic linux-image-3.16.0-59-generic
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 115 not upgraded.
13 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 37.6 MB/70.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 90.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main linux-image-extra-3.16.0-57-generic amd64 3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1 [37.6 MB]
Fetched 37.6 MB in 9s (3,897 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 301552 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-image-3.16.0-59-generic_3.16.0-59.79~14.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Done.
Unpacking linux-image-3.16.0-59-generic (3.16.0-59.79~14.04.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.16.0-59-generic_3.16.0-59.79~14.04.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
cannot copy extracted data for './boot/System.map-3.16.0-59-generic' to '/boot/System.map-3.16.0-59-generic.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space left on device)
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d .
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools 3.16.0-59-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-59-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub 3.16.0-59-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-59-generic
Preparing to unpack .../linux-image-3.16.0-57-generic_3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Done.
Unpacking linux-image-3.16.0-57-generic (3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.16.0-57-generic_3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
cannot copy extracted data for './boot/System.map-3.16.0-57-generic' to '/boot/System.map-3.16.0-57-generic.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space left on device)
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d .
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools 3.16.0-57-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-57-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub 3.16.0-57-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-57-generic
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.16.0-59-generic_3.16.0-59.79~14.04.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.16.0-57-generic_3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I noticed that it asked me to use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove the unrequired headers and image, so I tried that as well, hoping it would free up space.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
linux-image-3.16.0-59-generic
Suggested packages:
fdutils linux-lts-utopic-tools
The following packages will be REMOVED:
linux-headers-3.16.0-30 linux-headers-3.16.0-30-generic
linux-headers-3.16.0-44 linux-headers-3.16.0-44-generic
linux-headers-3.16.0-45 linux-headers-3.16.0-45-generic
linux-headers-3.16.0-46 linux-headers-3.16.0-46-generic
linux-headers-3.16.0-48 linux-headers-3.16.0-48-generic
linux-headers-3.16.0-52 linux-headers-3.16.0-52-generic
linux-headers-3.16.0-57 linux-headers-3.16.0-57-generic
linux-image-3.16.0-30-generic linux-image-3.16.0-44-generic
linux-image-3.16.0-45-generic linux-image-3.16.0-46-generic
linux-image-3.16.0-48-generic linux-image-extra-3.16.0-30-generic
linux-image-extra-3.16.0-44-generic linux-image-extra-3.16.0-45-generic
linux-image-extra-3.16.0-46-generic linux-image-extra-3.16.0-48-generic
linux-image-extra-3.16.0-52-generic linux-image-extra-3.16.0-57-generic
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-image-3.16.0-59-generic
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 26 to remove and 115 not upgraded.
18 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/16.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1,822 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 358771 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-headers-3.16.0-52-generic (3.16.0-52.71~14.04.1) ...
Removing linux-headers-3.16.0-52 (3.16.0-52.71~14.04.1) ...
Removing linux-headers-3.16.0-57-generic (3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1) ...
Removing linux-headers-3.16.0-57 (3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1) ...
Removing linux-image-extra-3.16.0-52-generic (3.16.0-52.71~14.04.1) ...
depmod: FATAL: could not load /boot/System.map-3.16.0-52-generic: No such file or directory
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal 3.16.0-52-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-52-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.16.0-52-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-52-generic
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-52-generic
grep: /boot/config-3.16.0-52-generic: No such file or directory
WARNING: missing /lib/modules/3.16.0-52-generic
Device driver support needs thus be built-in linux image!
depmod: ERROR: could not open directory /lib/modules/3.16.0-52-generic: No such file or directory
depmod: FATAL: could not search modules: No such file or directory
depmod: WARNING: could not open /tmp/mkinitramfs_NKkAPu/lib/modules/3.16.0-52-generic/modules.order: No such file or directory
depmod: WARNING: could not open /tmp/mkinitramfs_NKkAPu/lib/modules/3.16.0-52-generic/modules.builtin: No such file or directory
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/update-notifier 3.16.0-52-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-52-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 3.16.0-52-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-52-generic
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-51-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-50-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-50-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-49-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-49-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-48-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-48-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-46-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-46-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-45-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-45-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-44-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-44-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-30-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-30-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.elf
Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.bin
done
Removing linux-image-extra-3.16.0-57-generic (3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1) ...
depmod: FATAL: could not load /boot/System.map-3.16.0-57-generic: No such file or directory
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal 3.16.0-57-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-57-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.16.0-57-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-57-generic
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-57-generic
grep: /boot/config-3.16.0-57-generic: No such file or directory
WARNING: missing /lib/modules/3.16.0-57-generic
Device driver support needs thus be built-in linux image!
depmod: ERROR: could not open directory /lib/modules/3.16.0-57-generic: No such file or directory
depmod: FATAL: could not search modules: No such file or directory
depmod: WARNING: could not open /tmp/mkinitramfs_8kN3GO/lib/modules/3.16.0-57-generic/modules.order: No such file or directory
depmod: WARNING: could not open /tmp/mkinitramfs_8kN3GO/lib/modules/3.16.0-57-generic/modules.builtin: No such file or directory
gzip: stdout: No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-57-generic with 1.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-extra-3.16.0-57-generic (--remove):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-extra-3.16.0-57-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
This seems to put me back at square one. My /boot/ is still full, the blog post didn't work, autoremove (with/without -f) didn't work, and I can't finish the upgrade. What do I do now?
Thanks for any help.
