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[Fabián Rodríguez <magicfab@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

When trying to apply updates to a Dell Mini 9 with 4GB disk space, the
update process is launched but does not complete.

The system became irresponsive, when booted again remaining updates
where proposed, when clicking on the panel icon an error message
indicates:

dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run dpkg --configure -a to correct the problem.
drive_cache -write error open() failed, please report

The error message is approximate, as I was assisting the system owner on
the phone.

As a workaround, we opened a terminal and issued:
sudo apt-get clean

which cleared up about 200 MB. Then:
sudo dpkg --configure -a 

We also had to remove broken packages, using the filter in Synaptic
package manager.

Update manager should check for total needed disk space and propose
incremental updates or to clean up disk space accordingly.

** Affects: dell-mini
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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4GB version of Dell Mini 9 runs out of space with updates
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380784
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Status in Dell Inspiron Mini with Custom Dell UI: New

Bug description:
When trying to apply updates to a Dell Mini 9 with 4GB disk space, the update process is launched but does not complete.

The system became irresponsive, when booted again remaining updates where proposed, when clicking on the panel icon an error message indicates:

dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run dpkg --configure -a to correct the problem.
drive_cache -write error open() failed, please report

The error message is approximate, as I was assisting the system owner on the phone.

As a workaround, we opened a terminal and issued:
sudo apt-get clean

which cleared up about 200 MB. Then:
sudo dpkg --configure -a 

We also had to remove broken packages, using the filter in Synaptic package manager.

Update manager should check for total needed disk space and propose incremental updates or to clean up disk space accordingly.