update-initramfs is failing on debian testing upgrade

chadwick · 03-22-2008, 01:04 AM

I'm having some weird problems upgrading the debian testing installation on my T60 laptop.

apt-get install -f (where -f means "Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place.")

returns the following:

Code:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.91e) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-686

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-686
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6.22-3-686:
 linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 depends on initramfs-tools (>= 0.55) | yaird (>= 0.0.12-8) | linux-initramfs-tool; however:
  Package initramfs-tools is not configured yet.
  Package yaird is not installed.
  Package linux-initramfs-tool is not installed.
  Package initramfs-tools which provides linux-initramfs-tool is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools
 linux-image-2.6.22-3-686
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I'm stuck in trying to understand what's going on.
For starters, I have no idea why it's saying no space left if

df -h

says:

Code:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5             4.6G  3.6G  817M  82% /
tmpfs                 506M     0  506M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M  140K  9.9M   2% /dev
tmpfs                 506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1              18G   11G  7.2G  60% /mnt/sda1
/dev/sda3              46M   42M  2.0M  96% /boot
/dev/sda9              56G   36G   17G  69% /home
/dev/sda7             464M  375M   66M  86% /opt
/dev/sda6             1.9G  521M  1.3G  30% /usr/local
overflow              1.0M  320K  704K  32% /tmp

Unless it has something to do with /tmp being only a meg in size? Is it really supposed to be that small?
I don't remember coming across that overflow fs before.

chadwick · 03-23-2008, 03:03 AM

Another odd thing (among a few) is happening since I tried upgrading.
When I try to download a file using Iceweasel it says:

Quote:

There is not enough room on the disk to save to /tmp/filename.

This is despite the fact that the selected place to save downloaded files is ~/Desktop.

Another odd thing is that I can no longer play video. For example nothing on Youtube works anymore.

Any ideas would be appreciated here.

chadwick · 03-28-2008, 12:19 AM

Thanks to izar from Debian forums for sorting out this issue for me over here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=138233#138233