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[Bill Canaday <798414@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Elizabeth, 
This is not an especially long message thread and there are at least two different fixes above. 

The Linux "way" of things is to request that users make at least minimal
efforts to solve their own problems.

Pretty much everyone here is either an end-user or a volunteer
developer. Unless you have paid for support, there - is - no "help
desk".


Unlike the famous  RTF manuals of yore, all of the comments above are in ordinary English. 

Say one "Our Father" and count your blessings.

But, read them you must. Solving problems by educating yourself is how
angels earn their wings in Linux.

Ten minutes of reading and the memorization of a single, simple, command
will almost certainly solve the problem although there are two
alternative methods mentioned that will DEFINITELY solve the problem at
the expense of being vastly more "techy".

You will also, if you read closely, learn how to nest options within the
same command so that multiple files receive the same flying fickle
finger of fate with no fatal finger flinching cramps from typing the
same command over again

That, alone, is worth the journey.

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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 NULL Project:
  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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