Boot partition runs out of space, requires manual uninstallation of old kernels
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I did a full-disk installation (using graphical installer and automatic partitioning) with full-disk encryption on a 200GB disk, and Ubuntu chose to only allocate 141MB to the /boot partition .
So now yesterday when the system updater ran, I got an error that I was out of space on the /boot partition. No option to automatically uninstall old kernels, or hint about how to do it manually.
Either 1) the installer needs to allocate more space for /boot , 2) the updater needs to offer to automatically remove old kernels, or 3) old kernels need to be uninstalled without asking. Probably all three. The current state of requiring manual non-intuitive trivial low-level maintenance is not "Linux for human beings".
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: debian-installer (not installed)
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-34-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Aug 23 10:08:18 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-18 (126 days ago)
InstallationMedia: It
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EP35-DS3R
MemoryUsage:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8175704 1988124 6187580 45340 44376 556760
-/+ buffers/cache: 1386988 6788716
Swap: 8388604 0 8388604
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: debian-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 06/19/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F4
dmi.board.name: EP35-DS3R
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSof
dmi.product.name: EP35-DS3R
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
affects: | debian-installer (Ubuntu) → update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | added: full-boot |
There are separate bug reports for different solutions:
1) Bug #1652469
2) Bug #1460396
3) Bug #1675079