Comment 156 for bug 798414

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Bill Meier (wmeier) wrote : Re: [Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space

Why not just write a little GUI app for us , so that we "command line
illiterates" can take care of this. We need to select what we want
deleted, just getting rid of the old, I understand, may not be what is
wanted.

Bill

On 05/05/2017 03:13 AM, Michael Baker wrote:
> 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).
>