Updater can't update kernel due to disk space
Mateusz Stachowski
mateusz.stachowski at wp.pl
Thu Jan 15 20:21:58 UTC 2015
W dniu 15.01.2015 o 17:49, Dustin Kirkland pisze:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Adam Conrad <adconrad at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 08:37:00AM -0600, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
>>> Around that time a few years ago, I wrote the "purge-old-kernels" command (
>>> http://manpg.es/purge-old-kernels), which does a very effective job of saving
>>> your current kernel, and one other known working kernel, while deleting the
>>> rest. I was working on getting that into the distro (and out of the bikeshed
>>> package), but Adam Conrad told me that apt would fix this, itself. I've CC'd
>>> Adam. Can you advise us, Adam?
>> apt does do this itself (via 'apt-get autoremove'), the missing puzzle
>> piece is that none of the friendly upgraders (like update-manager) do
>> automatic autoremove runs. It's probably time to revisit this policy.
> Aha! So I have autoupdate enabled, which keeps my packages (and
> kernels updated). But in the process, that basically guarantees that
> my disk will get filled, automatically, given enough time.... That's
> definitely not ideal!
>
> Let's do revisit this :-)
>
>> I can see several ways "power users" can shoot themselves in the foot
>> with autoremove, but no way that "normal people" can, and I'm not sure
>> catering to people who think they're clever doing unclever things is
>> the right default.
> Autoremoving kernels, when you have lots of them, and as long as you
> keep your current one (and one other known good one), should be very
> safe, for almost any user.
>
>> CCing Michael for opinions.
>>
>> ... Adam
>>
The 'apt-get autoremove' doesn't work for me. I only get the extra
images remove the generic and headers are still there and I need to
remove them manually.
This was on 14.04 and now after direct upgrade to 15.04 it still doesn't
work.
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