Comment 4 for bug 520194

Here's another incomplete purge of kernel files, which did not cause a crash (different file this time, modules.seriomap).
This installation was on a hard disk, in a usb 2.0 enclosure.

Intrepid patched to date March 10, 2010 showed the manual kernel cleanup
problem. Same file, modules.seriomap was left.
No proprietary drivers in use.

$ uname -a
Linux laptop 2.6.27-17-generic #1 SMP Wed Jan 27 23:14:44 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

sudo apt-get purge `apt-cache pkgnames |fgrep 27-15`
[sudo] password for xxx:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package linux-headers-lbm-2.6.27-15-server is not installed, so not removed
Package linux-backports-modules-2.6.27-15-generic is not installed, so not removed
Package linux-backports-modules-2.6.27-15-server is not installed, so not removed
Package linux-image-2.6.27-15-virtual is not installed, so not removed
Package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-15-server is not installed, so not removed
Package linux-headers-lbm-2.6.27-15-generic is not installed, so not removed
Package linux-headers-2.6.27-15-server is not installed, so not removed
Package linux-image-2.6.27-15-server is not installed, so not removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  linux-headers-2.6.27-15* linux-headers-2.6.27-15-generic* linux-image-2.6.27-15-generic* linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-15-generic*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 150MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 156348 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-headers-2.6.27-15-generic ...
Removing linux-headers-2.6.27-15 ...
Removing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-15-generic ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-15-generic
Purging configuration files for linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-15-generic ...
Removing linux-image-2.6.27-15-generic ...
Examining /etc/kernel/prerm.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/prerm.d/dkms
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/prerm.d/last-good-boot
Running postrm hook script /sbin/update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... found but preserving previous setting: splashimage=/boot/grub/digging.xpm.gz
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-17-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-16-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

Purging configuration files for linux-image-2.6.27-15-generic ...
Running postrm hook script /sbin/update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... found but preserving previous setting: splashimage=/boot/grub/digging.xpm.gz
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-17-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-16-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

rmdir: failed to remove `/lib/modules/2.6.27-15-generic': Directory not empty
dpkg - warning: while removing linux-image-2.6.27-15-generic, directory `/lib/modules/2.6.27-15-generic' not empty so not removed.

$ ls /lib/modules
2.6.27-15-generic 2.6.27-16-generic 2.6.27-17-generic

$ ls /lib/modules/*15*
modules.seriomap

$ locate modules.seriomap
/lib/modules/2.6.27-15-generic/modules.seriomap
/lib/modules/2.6.27-16-generic/modules.seriomap
/lib/modules/2.6.27-17-generic/modules.seriomap

$ cat /lib/modules/*15*/m*
# serio module type extra id proto
touchwin 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x33
touchright 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x32
penmount 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x31
mtouch 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x30
inexio 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x37
gunze 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x1c
touchit213 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x37
elo 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x29
fujitsu_ts 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x35
serio_raw 0x01 0xff 0xff 0xff
vsxxxaa 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x08
sermouse 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x01
sermouse 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x02
sermouse 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x03
sermouse 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x04
sermouse 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x05
sermouse 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x06
sermouse 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x07
psmouse 0x01 0xff 0xff 0xff
psmouse 0x05 0xff 0xff 0xff
xtkbd 0x00 0xff 0xff 0xff
sunkbd 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x10
sunkbd 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x00
stowaway 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x20
newtonkbd 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x1f
lkkbd 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x28
zhenhua 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x36
warrior 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x18
twidjoy 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x24
stinger 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x1e
spaceorb 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x19
spaceball 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x1b
magellan 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x1a
iforce 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x1d
i2c-taos-evm 0x02 0xff 0xff 0x34