Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

[Colin Law]

On 14 January 2015 at 16:33, Chris Knutson
<christopher.knutson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just had to purge 3 older kernel versions this morning on 14.04 to update
> from 3.13.0-43 to 3.13.0-44

Did you try autoremove?  Alternatively is it possible they were
ancient ones left over from before an upgrade to 14.04?  Or possibly
manually installed ones?

Colin

>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 14 January 2015 at 15:34, Chris Knutson
>> <christopher.knutson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Clearing out old kernel versions manually to be able to upgrade the
>> > kernel
>> > version is something the end user should never have to do. Clearing out
>> > old
>> > kernel version from /boot should be better managed by the software
>> > updater
>> > to intelligently manage historic kernel versions based on available disk
>> > space on the partition.
>>
>> I believe that as from 14.04 (I think) only the current and previous
>> kernels are kept, the others are deleted by autoremove.  Not sure
>> whether the software updater will autoremove them.
>>
>> Colin
>>
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