Ubuntu
initramfs-tools package

  1. Bug #798414
  2. Comment #155

Comment 155 for bug 798414

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Michael Baker (mbaker5153) wrote : Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space

On booting I am told that a system program has encountered an error and asked if I want to send a report. On saying yes I'm told that the bug has already been reported and that it is "update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space".
This is so far from what is happening that it is infuriating.
The basis of the problem is that /boot is not being cleaned up automatically.
This was a bug which was supposedly fixed in 16.04 UTS, but apparently not.
As a retired software engineer I know that I can clean up /boot manually, and have done so many times.
However I shouldn't have to.
Please stop classifying the /boot partition being full as "update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space".
This bug (/boot not being cleaned up automatically) should be given the highest possible importance.
It must be a complete turn of to any ubuntu user who does not have computer science skills (and to many who do).