/boot filled up with kernel updates, simple solution required [$10]

[Ezra Sharp]

I ran the update manager as normal and it siad /boot had run out of space and gave a command to fix it which did nothing "sudo apt-cache clean" or similar.

I may have fubared my system trying to manually remove old kernel packages, but even that didnt free up enough space, then removing the kernel updates manually form the update manager etc.. but still,

This was a default eOS install and the boot partition can fill up, there needs to be a non-tech way to the user to move past this.

I'd suggest just removing the old kernels automaticly and moving them onto the new ones.

Yeah, there's not space in my /boot to compile the new kernels.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.3
Package: elementary-desktop 1.350+394~ubuntu0.3.1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-37.64-generic 3.13.11.7
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: elementary_meta
CurrentDesktop: Pantheon
Date: Mon Nov 3 17:10:24 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-18 (77 days ago)
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.3 "Freya" - Daily amd64 (20140810)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:

ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Nicolò Balzarotti (anothersms)]

Same happen on default ubuntu install. If manually setting boot partition to a small value, after some kernel update apt fails until you clean up it manually. I think that keeping last 3 update should be enough

[dankcushions (dankcushions)]

To get rid of these you need to do this at the command line:

sudo apt-get purge linux-image-3.16.0.46-generic
(where the last bit matches an old file in /boot)
DON'T remove the most recent, though!

but yeah I agree that it should ideally be automatically done by the updater. this is one of the few things I have to regularly go into the command line for in elementary os

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Assigning this to appcenter. Appcenter should probably automatically know about automatically removing old kernels.

[Maxim Taranov (png2378)]

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/5850207-boot-filled-up-with-kernel-updates-simple-solution-required

[Michael Thayer (michael-thayer)]

Duplicate of #798414?