Failure when attempting to update the kernel
I never had a problem before, including the same OS (Linux Mint 18) on other computers. This is after a fresh install on a Lenovo Thinkpad T470. I am trying to update from kernel 4.10.0-32 to 4.10.0-35. My configuration is that I have Centos 7 installed on partitions 1 & 2 (GRUB here is used to select OS), and Linux Mint 18 installed on partition 4. Windows is out of the picture installed on a separate hard drive. Uninstalling the kernel and cleaning the update caches/etc. and then reinstalling the kernel results in the same error. Running various broken link or other fixes within the update Manager or from within apt does not solve the problem. I have also tried installing from both the Update Manager as well as apt from the command line. Regular non-kernel updates work fine, and the OS works fine as well.
The following is the kernel install attempt messages and error messages: Code:
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Just guessing, out of inodes perhaps?
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Hmmm - let me check the logs on another machine. I did a selective kernel update on someone elses' machine a few days back.
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Can't see anything odd in the logs. But the system in question has zero files containing dpkg-new - I don't know enough about apt/dpkg, but I'm guessing temporary filename until install.
Everything under /usr/src/... are owned root:root - with the Makefile (note, not Makefile.dpkg-new) world readable, and writable by root. Hopefully somebody with more apt knowledge will be able to help. |
I fear I am going to have to reinstall everything. Maybe the install is corrupted for some reason (I did do a crc check on the download), or Mint doesn't like my hardware. I dread reinstalling all my programs and changing settings everywhere again, but oh well.
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Create a /home partition and copy everything over. Select that during install as /home and don't format it. Create the same users and passwords (optional).
You'll have to re-install the packages, but they'll come up customised as at present. |
SOLVED: Found a post with the identical error. Sophos Anti-Virus was preventing the install of the new kernel so I removed it.
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Ugh.
But you gotta expect things like that if you run anti-virus I guess. |
I run Sophus on 4 other different distros without an issue. So, I switched to Clam o n Linux Mint. Linux is becoming more and more a target, but my main reason is that I often transfer files to/from Windows computers.
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