Laptop never updates right

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 05:18:15PM +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> On 25 March 2013 16:56, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I run Precise on my laptop and I don't recall if this was happening
> > when I had Maverick, but my laptop always gets the update
> > notifications and then fails to install them.
> >
> > I routinely have to do sudo apt-get clean before an update will
> > install properly.
> 
> sudo apt-get clean just empties the cache, are you running out of disk space?
> 
> Run
> sudo apt-get update
> and post any error messages here.
> If no errors then run
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> and again post the errors.

Incidentally, I recently encountered this kind of error on a desktop.
Updates would fail to install because there was not enough disk space.
Closer investigation showed that it wasn't disk space per se, but rather
the inode table on the ext4 partition was filled up from having a bunch
of kernel packages, each of which has a bazillion small files.

Marius Gedminas
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