Comment 7 for bug 374105

It seems like something else is at play here also.

$ ll /lib/modules/*/build ; ll /boot/vmlinuz-*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2011-11-01 07:45 /lib/modules/2.6.32-23-generic/build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-23-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2011-11-01 07:45 /lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-33-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2011-10-25 03:55 /lib/modules/2.6.32-35-generic/build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-35-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2011-12-04 23:47 /lib/modules/2.6.32-36-generic/build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-36-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2011-12-24 02:54 /lib/modules/2.6.32-37-generic/build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-37-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2012-03-10 19:52 /lib/modules/2.6.32-39-generic/build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-39-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2012-03-26 06:24 /lib/modules/2.6.32-40-generic/build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-40-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2012-04-24 14:42 /lib/modules/2.6.32-41-generic/build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-41-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 2012-05-02 11:25 /lib/modules/3.0.0-19-generic/build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-3.0.0-19-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 2012-06-13 09:05 /lib/modules/3.0.0-21-generic/build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-3.0.0-21-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4049152 2012-03-06 08:38 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-40-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4049824 2012-04-28 11:39 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-41-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 4618896 2012-03-10 05:07 /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-17-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 4621552 2012-04-20 22:55 /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-19-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 4621392 2012-05-02 23:30 /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-20-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 4700816 2011-11-30 17:31 /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-999-generic

All the /lib/modules/2.6.3?-41-generic/ directories are basically empty except for that single link. More leftover cruft despite those kernel image packages being purged.