[Bug 1804803] [NEW] do-release-upgrade fails due to lack of inodes

[Neil Wilson]

Public bug reported:

When upgrading from Trusty to Xenial it is possible to have a disk that
is half empty but has run out of inodes due to uncleared kernel updates.

This of course causes the upgrade to fail with catastrophic and
irreversible results

Not sure what pre-flight checks upgrader does, but checking for
sufficient inodes as well as disk space (plus checking if the apt cache
is ok like unattended upgrades does) might be worth doing.

In the meantime back to trying to recover the corrupted server... :-)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-147.196-generic 3.13.11-ckt39
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-147-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Fri Nov 23 11:06:35 2018
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade trusty uec-images

** Description changed:

  When upgrading from Trusty to Xenial it is possible to have a disk that
  is half empty but has run out of inodes due to uncleared kernel updates.
  
  This of course causes the upgrade to fail with catastrophic and
  irreversible results
  
  Not sure what pre-flight checks upgrader does, but checking for
  sufficient inodes as well as disk space (plus checking if the apt cache
  is ok like unattended upgrades does) might be worth doing.
  
- In the meantime back to trying to recover this server... :-)
+ In the meantime back to trying to recover the corrupted server... :-)
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-147.196-generic 3.13.11-ckt39
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-147-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  Date: Fri Nov 23 11:06:35 2018
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Title:
  do-release-upgrade fails due to lack of inodes

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When upgrading from Trusty to Xenial it is possible to have a disk
  that is half empty but has run out of inodes due to uncleared kernel
  updates.

  This of course causes the upgrade to fail with catastrophic and
  irreversible results

  Not sure what pre-flight checks upgrader does, but checking for
  sufficient inodes as well as disk space (plus checking if the apt
  cache is ok like unattended upgrades does) might be worth doing.

  In the meantime back to trying to recover the corrupted server... :-)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-147.196-generic 3.13.11-ckt39
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-147-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  Date: Fri Nov 23 11:06:35 2018
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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