/boot fills up after many kernel upgrades
Bug #1037285 reported by
Robert Hensing
This bug affects 11 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
THIS ISSUE MAY PREVENT SECURITY UPDATES TO THE KERNEL.
Obsolete versions of the kernel remain installed on a system, causing a full /boot or wasting space on single-partition installations.
This has the effect that (some) software updates no longer work (at least those to the kernel):
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.
gzip: stdout: No space left on device
[...]
Errors were encountered while processing:
initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
To resolve this, the user must figure out which packages to deinstall. A novice user will not know what to do.
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Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.