ubuntu上安装软件时，出现错误gzip: stdout: No space left on device

参考文章：http://askubuntu.com/questions/38083/initramfs-problem-when-out-of-disk-space

问题描述：

I just upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04. During the upgrade process, it said there was a problem setting up initramfs-tools and I needed to do sudo dpkg --configure -a So once I got 11.04 started for the first time, I did that. This is the output. 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 Errors were encountered while processing: initramfs-tools After searching around, it seemed like this was a problem of insufficient space in my /boot partition. It is only 100 MB and this has never been a problem before, but despite deleting all but the latest kernel I still get the same message.

 

解决方案：

100MB is sufficient for 2 kernels and a init ramdisk. You can view your current installed kernels by executing: dpkg -l 'linux-image-*' | grep '^ii' Example output: ii linux-image-2.6.35-28-generic 2.6.35-28.50 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.35 on x86/x86_64 ii linux-image-2.6.38-8-generic 2.6.38-8.42 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.38 on x86/x86_64 ii linux-image-generic 2.6.38.8.22 Generic Linux kernel image After confirming that the latest kernel works, you can remove the previous ones. In this case, there is only one redundant kernel: sudo apt-get purge linux-image-2.6.35-28-generic If this process does not complete because of previous installation triggers, try adding -f (--fix-broken) before purge.