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initramfs-tools package

  1. Bug #798414
  2. Comment #73

Comment 73 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

I can't believe they haven't taken care of this yet. When I go to delete
the older kernels I get denied. I tried some other things I saw
mentioned but, probably because I didn't know what I was doing, they
didn't work for me either. Now, I make sure all my data is on the other
hard drive and just reinstall the system... start over. I am running
Lubuntu 15.04 now, we'll see.

On 10/12/2015 02:26 PM, Justin wrote:
> I had this problem about a month ago and deleted old kernels and it
> worked fine at that point. I had tried a few different flavors before I
> settled on Lubuntu so I thought that might be why I had the older kernel
> versions floating around. Here I am with the same problem again.
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root 228G 14G 204G 7% /
> none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> udev 479M 8.0K 479M 1% /dev
> tmpfs 99M 1.5M 98M 2% /run
> none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
> none 493M 76K 493M 1% /run/shm
> none 100M 24K 100M 1% /run/user
> /dev/sda2 237M 232M 0 100% /boot
>
> sda2 is chock full again so I checked my kernels:
>
> i linux-image-3.16.0-44-generic - Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 3
> i linux-image-3.16.0-45-generic - Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 3
> i linux-image-3.16.0-46-generic - Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 3
> i linux-image-3.16.0-48-generic - Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 3
> i linux-image-3.16.0-49-generic - Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 3
> i linux-image-3.16.0-50-generic - Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 3
> i linux-image-extra-3.16.0-44-gen - Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.1
> i linux-image-extra-3.16.0-45-gen - Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.1
> i linux-image-extra-3.16.0-46-gen - Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.1
> i linux-image-extra-3.16.0-48-gen - Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.1
> i linux-image-extra-3.16.0-49-gen - Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.1
>
> I am confident that I had deleted all but 49 and 50 last time but here
> they are again. I'll admit that I am a relative noob on linux so the
> problem may be with the user! I am posting this information primarily to
> try and help. I'm going to delete the extra kernels again and see how it
> goes.
>