[Bug 1357093] Re: Kernels not autoremoving, causing out of space error on LVM or Encrypted installation or on any installation, when /boot partition gets full

[Ben Norris]

This bug has just hosed a system I installed for my parents.  An
unattended-upgrader that breaks your system if you don't attend to it IS
broken.

Having known about this problem for many years, the least you could have
done is added a warning to the installer that choosing lvm or encryption
will make a system that breaks itself.

The idea that novice users can just run script workarounds is entirely unrealistic.
a) They don't know about the problem if they haven't been told (burying it deep in the manuals or text that whizzes by is not good enough)
b) from a security PoV they shouldn't be run anything they cut & paste in

The general attitude to a major showstopper that is causing a lot of
pain for novice users shown in this bug is frankly appalling and I'm
pretty much inclined to ditch Ubuntu because of it.

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Title:
  Kernels not autoremoving, causing out of space error on LVM or
  Encrypted installation or on any installation, when /boot partition
  gets full

Status in unattended-upgrades:
  New
Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Currently if one chooses to use LVM or encrypted install, a /boot
  partition is created of 236Mb

  Once kernel updates start being released this partition soon fills
  until people are left unable to upgrade.

  While you and I might know that we need to watch partition space, many
  of the people we have installing think that a windows disk is a disk
  and not a partition, education is probably the key - but in the
  meantime support venues keep needing to deal with the fact the
  partition is too small and/or old kernels are not purged as new ones
  install.

  For workaround and sytem repair, see
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RemoveOldKernels

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