Help! I cannot upgrade to New Ubuntu release 12.04.4 LTS

[W Scott Lockwood III]

On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 16:04 -0400, Rick Magraw wrote:
> Yes, there are a whole bunch:
> 
> rsm at rsm-laptop:~$ ls /boot
> abi-2.6.32-24-generic     config-2.6.32-33-generic
> System.map-2.6.24-21-eeepc    vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-33-generic
> abi-2.6.32-25-generic     config-2.6.32-34-generic
> System.map-2.6.32-24-generic  vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-34-generic
> abi-2.6.32-26-generic     config-2.6.32-35-generic
> System.map-2.6.32-25-generic  vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-35-generic
> abi-2.6.32-27-generic     config-2.6.32-37-generic
> System.map-2.6.32-26-generic  vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-37-generic
> abi-2.6.32-28-generic     config-2.6.32-41-generic
> System.map-2.6.32-27-generic  vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-41-generic
> abi-2.6.32-29-generic     config-2.6.32-57-generic
> System.map-2.6.32-28-generic  vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-57-generic
> abi-2.6.32-30-generic     grub
> System.map-2.6.32-29-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.24-21-eeepc
> abi-2.6.32-31-generic     initrd.img-2.6.24-21-eeepc
> System.map-2.6.32-30-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic
> abi-2.6.32-32-generic     initrd.img-2.6.24-21-eeepc.bak
> System.map-2.6.32-31-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.32-25-generic
> abi-2.6.32-33-generic     initrd.img-2.6.32-24-generic
> System.map-2.6.32-32-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.32-26-generic
> abi-2.6.32-34-generic     initrd.img-2.6.32-25-generic
> System.map-2.6.32-33-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.32-27-generic
> abi-2.6.32-35-generic     initrd.img-2.6.32-26-generic
> System.map-2.6.32-34-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.32-28-generic
> abi-2.6.32-37-generic     initrd.img-2.6.32-27-generic
> System.map-2.6.32-35-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.32-29-generic
> abi-2.6.32-41-generic     initrd.img-2.6.32-28-generic
> System.map-2.6.32-37-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.32-30-generic
> abi-2.6.32-57-generic     initrd.img-2.6.32-29-generic
> System.map-2.6.32-41-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.32-31-generic
> config-2.6.24-21-eeepc    initrd.img-2.6.32-30-generic
> System.map-2.6.32-57-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.32-32-generic
> config-2.6.32-24-generic  initrd.img-2.6.32-31-generic
> vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-24-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.32-33-generic
> config-2.6.32-25-generic  initrd.img-2.6.32-32-generic
> vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-25-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.32-34-generic
> config-2.6.32-26-generic  initrd.img-2.6.32-33-generic
> vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-26-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.32-35-generic
> config-2.6.32-27-generic  initrd.img-2.6.32-34-generic
> vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-27-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.32-37-generic
> config-2.6.32-28-generic  initrd.img-2.6.32-35-generic
> vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-28-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.32-41-generic
> config-2.6.32-29-generic  initrd.img-2.6.32-37-generic
> vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-29-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.32-57-generic
> config-2.6.32-30-generic  initrd.img-2.6.32-41-generic
> vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-30-generic
> config-2.6.32-31-generic  initrd.img-2.6.32-57-generic
> vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-31-generic
> config-2.6.32-32-generic  memtest86+.bin
> vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-32-generic
> rsm at rsm-laptop:~$ 
> 

>         

Wow. that's way, way too many. You need to clean that up. I would
suggest doing something like this:

dpkg -l | grep ^ii | grep 3.11.0-1[34] | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | xargs echo -n
| xargs apt-get -y --force-yes purge -

You'll need to adjust '3.11.0-1[34]' to match your needs of course.
Basically, you want to uninstall all but the most recent packages. I
never keep more than 3 or so.

-- 
William Scott Lockwood III