Please don't regenerate the initramfs when removal/purge of linux-image-`uname -r` is pending

[Peter Klotz]

Binary package hint: linux-image

I used Synaptics Package manager to perform a complete removal of "linux-image-2.6.22-9", "linux-image-2.6.22-10" and "linux-image-2.6.22-11" in order to free up space in /boot.

When watching with ls I saw the uninstall procedure first creating a new initrd file (and making a backup of the old one) before actually deleting the linux-image package files. This happened with all three linux-image packages.

It seems to me that creating an initrd image just before removing it makes not much sense. Especially since on my aged hardware creating an initrd image takes quite a while.

All this was observed on Ubuntu 7.10 Beta. Synaptic Package manager says "synaptic 0.60ubuntu4".

[Jonathan Hudson (jh+lpd)]

This still happens, and is *very* annoying if the reason one is removing old images is because you've run out of space on /boot, which becomes very difficult to cleanly resolve.

# apt-get remove linux-image-2.6.24-16-powerpc linux-image-2.6.24-16-powerpc-smp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  linux-image-2.6.24-16-powerpc linux-image-2.6.24-16-powerpc-smp
  linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-16-powerpc
  linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-16-powerpc-smp
  linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16-powerpc
  linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16-powerpc-smp
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 161MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 248864 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-16-powerpc ...
Removing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16-powerpc ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-powerpc #### ! WTF
Removing linux-image-2.6.24-16-powerpc ...
Removing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-16-powerpc-smp ...
Removing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16-powerpc-smp ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-powerpc-smp #### ! WTF
Removing linux-image-2.6.24-16-powerpc-smp ...

[Sanyi (sandor-balazsi)]

The BUG is still exist in Intrepid Ibex (8.10)...

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

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This bug was reported against the linux-meta package when it likely should have been reported against the linux package instead. We are automatically transitioning this to the linux kernel package so that the appropriate teams are notified and made aware of this issue. Thanks.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Triaged a while ago but has not had any updated comments for quite some time. Please let us know if this issue remains in the current Ubuntu release, http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . If the issue remains, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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