[Bug 990426] Re: no check for free disk space on update to 12.04

[Rumpeltux]

I had a similar issue, except that I got the disk-space warning when
trying to upgrade, so I freed some space, retried and ran into the
problems you described.

I think in my case it may be related to some btrfs-issues. I've 15g on /
with ~6g in use. During the upgrade it completely fills up. This is
probably due to the snapshot apt created of the fs. So in the
calculation it does not seem to take into account that the
installed_size will be required roughly twice (+ deb-package cache).
(Also: it took me ages to find out that the snapshot is eating all the
space on the FS…)

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Title:
  no check for free disk space on update to 12.04

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  i've upgraded from 11.10 to 12.04 (x86)
  during upgrade i've reached disk space limit (no free space on system partition)
  there was no other running applications (but Update Manager) during upgrade

  in "installing" stage i have warnings "only XX MB free space avaliable"
  and a lot of error dialog boxes from update manager (something about xkb config update error)

  in early versions update manager checks for free disk space and warn about it at the start
  this functionality was removed or there is a bug in required/free disk space calculation

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