[Bug 963011] Re: dkms package causes linux-headers-* packages stay in the system forever consuming disk space
Mario Limonciello
superm1 at ubuntu.com
Thu Mar 29 22:26:45 UTC 2012
dkms doesn't directly depend on a particular version of linux-headers,
but just on having at least one of the metapackages installed.
Normally kernel upgrades don't remove old versions, that's up to the
user to do with something like Computer Janitor. If anything this is a
bug in the way that apt will figure out the dependency chain not a bug
in DKMS.
** Also affects: apt (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: dkms (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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Title:
dkms package causes linux-headers-* packages stay in the system
forever consuming disk space
Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “dkms” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Because of some veird dependency in dkms package, on each kernel
upgrade old linux-headers-* packages are not getting removed,
consuming a lot of disk space. Finally, root partition runs out of
space which causes serious issues. Without dkms, everything works
fine. I checked dependency and it indeed recommends all old packages.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: dkms 2.1.1.2-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-40.87-server 2.6.32.57+drm33.23
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-40-server x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar 23 15:38:38 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20110211.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dkms
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