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[Maja Kirkeby <maja.tonnesen@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not a computer-wiz and 
I had trouble installing the Tweak tool because .. gunzip had no space. The standard autoclean and autoremove was not able to help me as i had an odd dependency-issue for one of the old kernels and the return code for the preinstalled removal-program was 1 -then it tried to figure out the dependency and ... ran out of space . 

After manually removing some of the older kernels and images (using
remove because purge didn't work), I was able to install Tweak and
remove the rest.  Lovely 2 hours used on annoying kernel issues -but hey
it seems solved now. And next time i have the tweak-janitor :)

/Maja

PS: Unfortunately I've restarted and cannot copy-paste the full story of
issues. I hope you can make do with what I recall.

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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 tools for generating an initramfs:
  Confirmed
Status in NULL Project:
  Fix Released
Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

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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