Comment 41 for bug 541595

Gerhard GauBling, this is after the upgrade where I did not get an error like this during or before the upgrade ended. This is afterwards.

  I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 now but, now the Synaptic Package Manager (on Update for other new updates too) says that the package system is broken:

The package system is broken

Check if you are using third party repositories. If so disable them, since they are a common source of problems.
Furthermore run the following command in a Terminal: apt-get install -f

 Running apt-get install -f renders this same error (after the version upgrade):

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.2.0-24-generic_3.2.0-24.37_i386.deb (--unpack):
 error creating directory `./usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-24-generic': No space left on device

 /usr shows to be:

df /usr
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 4504400 3917004 361624 92% /usr <---- at 92% full so, why does Ubuntu 12.04 think that /usr has no space left? Is this saying that needs more than the 8% that is available?

 If so, the the root directory, where /usr is, shows to be 54% full! Therefore, it looks like Ubuntu 12.04 is not able to use that free space in the root directory! Or, why does it say that /usr is 92% full when it has another 1.3gig of free space in the root directory? This is whats dumb about this.