How to clean up /boot?

[Peng Yu]

It doesn't work.


~$  sudo apt-get  autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-image-extra-3.13.0-106-generic : Depends:
linux-image-3.13.0-106-generic but it is not installed
 linux-image-extra-3.13.0-98-generic : Depends:
linux-image-3.13.0-98-generic but it is not installed
 linux-image-generic : Depends: linux-image-3.13.0-106-generic but it
is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
~$  sudo apt-get -f  autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  linux-image-3.13.0-106-generic linux-image-3.13.0-98-generic
Suggested packages:
  fdutils linux-doc-3.13.0 linux-source-3.13.0 linux-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-image-3.13.0-106-generic linux-image-3.13.0-98-generic
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 112 not upgraded.
8 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 52.0 MB/67.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 86.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main
linux-image-3.13.0-98-generic amd64 3.13.0-98.145 [15.2 MB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main
linux-image-extra-3.13.0-98-generic amd64 3.13.0-98.145 [36.7 MB]
Fetched 52.0 MB in 9s (5,620 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 432211 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack
.../linux-image-3.13.0-106-generic_3.13.0-106.153_amd64.deb ...
Done.
Unpacking linux-image-3.13.0-106-generic (3.13.0-106.153) ...
Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-3.13.0-98-generic.
Preparing to unpack
.../linux-image-3.13.0-98-generic_3.13.0-98.145_amd64.deb ...
Done.
Unpacking linux-image-3.13.0-98-generic (3.13.0-98.145) ...
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.13.0-98-generic_3.13.0-98.145_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
 cannot copy extracted data for './boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-98-generic' to
'/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-98-generic.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space
left on device)
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error

       dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken
pipe)
Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d .
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools
3.13.0-98-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-98-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub
3.13.0-98-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-98-generic
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.13.0-98-generic_3.13.0-98.145_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
pengy at elnath:~$


On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Laurent CREPET <rootisnobody at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The fix is suggested by apt-get itself:
>
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
>> required:
>>   linux-headers-3.13.0-100 linux-headers-3.13.0-100-generic
>>   linux-headers-3.13.0-83 linux-headers-3.13.0-83-generic
>>   linux-headers-3.13.0-85 linux-headers-3.13.0-85-generic
>>   linux-headers-3.13.0-86 linux-headers-3.13.0-86-generic
>>   linux-headers-3.13.0-87 linux-headers-3.13.0-87-generic
>>   linux-headers-3.13.0-88 linux-headers-3.13.0-88-generic
>>   linux-headers-3.13.0-91 linux-headers-3.13.0-91-generic
>>   linux-headers-3.13.0-92 linux-headers-3.13.0-92-generic
>>   linux-headers-3.13.0-95 linux-headers-3.13.0-95-generic
>>   linux-image-3.13.0-100-generic linux-image-3.13.0-83-generic
>>   linux-image-3.13.0-85-generic linux-image-3.13.0-86-generic
>>   linux-image-3.13.0-87-generic linux-image-3.13.0-88-generic
>>   linux-image-3.13.0-91-generic linux-image-3.13.0-92-generic
>>   linux-image-3.13.0-95-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-100-generic
>>   linux-image-extra-3.13.0-83-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-85-generic
>>   linux-image-extra-3.13.0-86-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-87-generic
>>   linux-image-extra-3.13.0-88-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-91-generic
>>   linux-image-extra-3.13.0-92-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-95-generic
>> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
>
>
> Try to run 'apt-get autoremove'. It should remove old kernels mentioned
> above and keep the last 2 ones.
>
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Regards,
Peng