[ubuntu-in] Problem in 9.10 (grub wants more space)

[Onkar Shinde]

2010/6/29 Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] <abhishek.amberkar at gmail.com>:
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>> but this worked :-)
>> $ sudo dpkg -r linux-headers-2.6.31-14
>> (Reading database ... 671073 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Removing linux-headers-2.6.31-14 ...
>> laptop:~$
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>> ***
>> and now synaptic is back to normal and i guess things are back on
>> track am quite quite happy
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> Why did this work? cause dpkg doesn't take care of dependencies?

dpkg just works with packages you specify and any dependent packages.
apt-get works with all packages in a database database.
The reason apt-get was refusing to go ahead with removeal of old
kernel was because there was at least one package in broken
(unconfigured) state which was latest kernel package i.e. the files
related to latest kernel were not getting created due to space issue.
So it was a deadlock situation.


Onkar
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