Ubuntu 10.04.
After an update, I get a red warning icon in the system tray, warning about an error: broken count >0
Opening Update manager, I see that the broken package is linux-headers-2.6.32-38 (new install)
Trying to use the update manager, I get a further error message: You have 1 broken package on your system! Use the "Broken" filter to locate it.
and then:
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-38_2.6.32-38.83_all.deb: unable to create `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-38/arch/arm/mach-netx/include/mach/vmalloc.h.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-38/arch/arm/mach-netx/include/mach/vmalloc.h')
I tried apt-get clean
as suggested in another question on this site, and tried reinstalling the package in Synaptic.
One option I have not tried is simply to restart, but I don't dare to in case I can't reboot back into Ubuntu.
I have also tried apt-get install --fix-broken
and I get the following:
The following extra packages will be installed:
linux-headers-2.6.32-38
The following NEW packages will be installed
linux-headers-2.6.32-38
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/9,937kB of archives.
After this operation, 76.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 589950 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-headers-2.6.32-38 (from .../linux-headers-2.6.32-38_2.6.32-38.83_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-38_2.6.32-38.83_all.deb (--unpack):
unable to create `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-38/arch/arm/mach-nomadik/Makefile.boot.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-38/arch/arm/mach-nomadik/Makefile.boot'): No space left on device
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-38_2.6.32-38.83_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
sudo apt-get install --fix-broken
. You need to move about 76.2 MB of stuff to be exact, but might as well move what you can.