software-updater refuses to upgrade, needs a button to clean /boot

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

I am running trusty with full disk encryption and thus a separate /boot partition.
Software updater, at times, fails to complete the upgrade telling me that /boot does not have enough free disk-space.

Well, it should have the button to "run apt-get autoremove" to automatically remove packages that may be using disk space on /boot. (Because on trusty, old kernels are automatically marked for autoremoval)

This will also lower the amount of support requests elmo gets in the office.

Also I believe infinity would be happy to not be bugged about enabling autoremoval with unattended apt by default.

And mpt would be happy, that upgrades are self-serviced.

mvo, please, please, implement this =)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

In contrary to the description, Bug #1492709 tells kernels are not marked as "auto" by update-manager in Trusty.

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

If unattended upgrades were enabled by default with automatic removing of unneeded packages, there would not be need for removing old kernels in update-manager (or in other GUI package managers). With empty Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins block, there would not be automatic updates, so all updates could be still done in update-manager.

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

As for comment #4, I have not tested, if unattended upgrades can handle removing unused dependencies, if Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins block is empty.