Ubuntu Tweak reported a negative number of bytes for removing old kernels

[Christopher Kyle Horton]

See attached screenshot where the mouse cursor is. I am running Ubuntu Tweak 0.7.1 on a fully updated Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit.

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

Thanks for your report.

Have you already cleaned all the old kernels? Or they still there?

[Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton)]

Unfortunately, I already cleaned out all the kernels. If it helps any, the kernels I cleaned out were 3.2.0-12 through 3.2.0-22, leaving behind just 3.2.0-23 and the 3.2.0-24 kernel I am running on. Ubuntu Tweak still recognizes 3.2.0-23 as able to be cleaned out, but at least now it reports the memory size correctly.

Perhaps it was an overflow of some sort?

[Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton)]

It also looks to me like for each kernel version, there is a linux-headers-3.2.0-xx, linux-headers-3.2.0-xx-generic, and linux-image-3.2.0-xx-generic package. From the 3.2.0-23 kernel that is still listed, the size is 205.9 MB total. So, at the time I cleaned out all those old kernels, I had about 2264.9 MB (or a little over 2 GB) available to regain.

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for your feedback, glad to hear that you've cleaned the old kernels you don't need. I guess there's some overflow for the size count, I will try to fix it.