Software Updater does not guide user to remove excessive kernels when there is too little space on /boot to install a kernel update.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release: 14.04
update-manager:
Installed: 1:0.196.13
Candidate: 1:0.196.13
Version table:
*** 1:0.196.13 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
1:0.196.11 0
500 http://
After running Trusty for about a year, I had easily 3GB worth of old kernels sitting in my /boot folder.
For users that don't know about pruning old kernel versions, much less what kernels are, this is a problem since update-manager refuses to continue the update process when /boot doesn't have enough space.
My friend who I had installed Ubuntu for was complaining about updates not working, so I took a look and this is what was happening. His /boot partition is too small to have so many ~200mb kernel images.
We need a user-friendly way to inform the user that this is happening, and then suggest an automated course of action (apt-get remove oldest kernel + ensure at least one previous verified working kernel (such as purge_old_kernels in https:/
Attachment is updated ~/update-
It has not been implemented in _main_, I figure the main package devs would want to do that themselves, be it to use for removing the oldest kernel version, or having the user pick from a list of installed kernels which to remove.
Thanks.
-Tyler Dinsmoor <email address hidden>
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
summary: |
- Old kernels filling up /boot, causing failed updates + Software Updater does not guide user to remove old kernels when /boot is + about to get full, causing failed updates |
summary: |
- Software Updater does not guide user to remove old kernels when /boot is - about to get full, causing failed updates + Software Updater does not guide user to remove excessive kernels when + there is too little space on /boot to install a kernel update. |
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