E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
- by Nagaraj Shindagi
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Dell power-edge R720 server, facing the problem when I
apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up linux-image-3.2.0-37-generic-pae (3.2.0-37.58) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: deferring update (hook will be called later)
The link /initrd.img is a dangling linkto /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-37-generic-pae
Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.2.0-37-generic-pae
/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-37-generic-pae
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-37-generic-pae
gzip: stdout: No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-37-generic-pae with 1.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1
Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.2.0
-37-generic-pae.postinst line 1010.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-3.2.0-37-generic-pae (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-generic-pae:
linux-image-generic-pae depends on linux-image-3.2.0-37-generic-pae; however:
Package linux-image-3.2.0-37-generic-pae is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-generic-pae (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup erro
r from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-3.2.0-37-generic-pae
linux-image-generic-pae
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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even i tried with apt-get clean
apt-get remove
apt-get autoremove
apt-get purge
there is no difference it will show the same error message as above,
even i checked the disk space
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Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 24030076 612456 22196964 3% /
udev 16536644 4 16536640 1% /dev
tmpfs 6618884 1164 6617720 1% /run
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none 16547208 72 16547136 1% /run/shm
cgroup 16547208 0 16547208 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1 93207 75034 13361 85% /boot
/dev/sda10 9611492 1096076 8027176 13% /tmp
/dev/sda12 9611492 226340 8896912 3% /opt
/dev/sda13 9611492 152516 8970736 2% /srv
/dev/sda7 9611492 592208 8531044 7% /home
/dev/sda8 9611492 2656736 6466516 30% /usr
/dev/sda9 9611492 696468 8426784 8% /var
/dev/sda14 961237336 134563516 777845764 15% /usr/data
/dev/sda15 618991384 84498388 503050052 15% /usr/data1
/dev/sda11 9611492 152616 8970636 2% /usr/local
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is there any problem on allotting the space to the partiations
please let me know the solution
its on urgent
please help me on this issue
regards
