Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

[Chris Knutson]

This is not a support request. I have no problem cleaning up my system.

My mother should never have to do this if she wants to run Ubuntu.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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