Broken package after update: linux-headers, error brokencount >0
- by escozul
Ubuntu 12.04.
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-3.2.0-33-generic-pae (new install)
Specificaly I have my ubuntu on an AspireOne with 8gb internal storage.
I tried apt-get clean as suggested in another question on this site, and tried reinstalling the package in Synaptic.
I have tried to reboot but to no avail.
I have also tried apt-get install --fix-broken and I get the following:
sudo apt-get install --fix-broken
[sudo] password for elina:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
linux-headers-3.2.0-33-generic-pae
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-headers-3.2.0-33-generic-pae
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 38 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/977 kB of archives.
After this operation 11,3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]; y
(Reading database ... 437051 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-headers-3.2.0-33-generic-pae (from .../linux-headers-3.2.0-33-generic-pae_3.2.0-33.52_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.2.0-33-generic-pae_3.2.0-33.52_i386.deb (--unpack):
unable to create `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-33-generic-pae/include/config/usb/gspca/sonixb.h.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-33-generic-pae/include/config/usb/gspca/sonixb.h'): No space left on device
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.2.0-33-generic-pae_3.2.0-33.52_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I've tried all suggestions I could find:
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get install --fix-broken
Then I saw that on the error there was a mention about free space. So I did a df -h and the result was:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 7,0G 5,5G 1,1G 84% /
udev 235M 4,0K 235M 1% /dev
tmpfs 97M 816K 96M 1% /run
none 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock
none 242M 352K 242M 1% /run/shm
I see that on my root folder I have 1.1Gb free. The broken package is
linux-headers-3.2.0-33-generic-pae_3.2.0-33.52_i386.deb
which only takes up 11.3Mb on my hard drive.
I'm soooo lost.
I really hope there is something I'm missing here. I don't want to go about reformatting this bucket. It's really not worth the time.
Any help for fixing this would be hot.
