Comment 1 for bug 620271

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Aaron Peterson (myusualnickname) wrote :

Ok, it turns out that the kernel upgrades were using 400+mb and then when I unistalled -14 it took out my wireless.. but I knew to dpkg-reconfigure bcwm sources...

So the bug is actually that old kernels stick around far too long, and the broadcom package doesnt get rebuilt with a new kernel.

Maybe we could have the disk clean manager check some stats to see if a user successfully booted into newer kernels, and knock out some of the older ones. I think i had 5 kernels... It makes sense to keep the last one, just incase... and maybe a user kept computer up for whole time and us upgrading 2 kernels before reboot-- so the disk housekeepin tool should look to see what kernels have worked properly... and even ask the user before removing them.

The only thing the disk cleaner asks me to remove is hulu-desktop... and I installed that myself... and it even warns me that i might have installed it myself ;) but it doesn't know anything about old kernels..