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[Alan Burgess <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Iain,

This 'bug has been around for a long time now and the information that 
is on or comes back from the forum is inadequate and in one instance 
rendered my computer unbootable.

In the end I moved back to Windows 7 for all my serious work and now use 
Ubuntu 14.04 for anything that I'm prepared to loose.  I hope one day to 
be able to move back to Ubuntu as my main computing platform when it is 
as stable as Win 7.

Good luck.


On 10/11/15 23:43, Iain wrote:
> As a very new member of the Ubuntu community can I make a couple of
> observations?
>
> First: I understand the statement "Insufficient space in /boot" however:
> when I used the instruction that is supposed to clear space [sudo apt-
> get clean] it either didn't or didn't clear enough. So I thought I'd
> take the direct approach.  I'm an Administrator, so I loaded the Files
> application and went looking, but when I found what I thought was the
> /boot folder the system would not allow me to delete some older files
> (looked like downloads from earlier updates). Maybe the error message
> can include a solution that tells me how to delete the old files and/or
> increase the space of the /boot folder? Or even where to find the /boot
> folder?
>
> My second comment is that maybe once the installation of an update has
> successfully completed then the downloaded installation files could be
> deleted?
>
> I've tried limiting the download to smaller sections of the current
> update but nothing seems to install.
>
> Quick update: I thought I'd take one more look at the search engine and
> I found another command to remove junk from the boot (sudo apt-get
> autoremove) and this tells me it removed 300MB but the install still
> says it needs 30MB more than the available limit...
>
> How do I clean up the /boot folder?
>

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798414

Title:
  update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't
  enough  free space

Status in initramfs-tools:
  Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

  When generating a new initramfs there is no check for available free
  space, subsequently its possible for update-initramfs to fail due to a
  lack of free space.  This is resulting in package installation
  failures for initramfs-tools.  For example:

  Setting up initramfs-tools (0.98.8ubuntu3) ...
  update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
  Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic

  gzip: stdout: No space left on device
  E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
  update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
  dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

  WORKAROUND:

  Remove unused kernels using computer janitor or manually free space on
  your partition containing the /boot file system.

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