Instant Karma (was A better flavour?)

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03 September 2018  at 12:36, Robert Heller wrote:
Re: Instant Karma (was A better fla (at least in part)

>At Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:49:14 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> Almost as soon as I posted "A better flavour" thread I myself had a bit of 
>> trouble
>> 
>> I have a Compaq laptop that has bare 16.04 on (think 12.04->14.04->16.04) it 
>> had been sidelined because a Ram modual had died and made it run like cold 
>> Treacle, anyway I found a spare 128mb stick (so now 768mb some taken by 
>> display) and did
>> 
>> sudo apt update -y && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y
>> 
>> sudo apt autoremove -y && sudo apt autoclean -y
>> 
>> shutdown now -r
>> 
>> all went well (a bit slow but...)
>> 
>> then I got cocky
>> 
>> sudo Scripts/rm-kernels
>> 
>> listed a large number of old & very old kernels so I clicked on all of them and 
>> sat back as they were deleted...
>> 
>> untill it got to a few that started 3.x.x.22 thru 3.x.x.28 "Cant be found"
>> 
>> no problemm but
>> 
>> dpkg --list | grep linux-image
>> 
>> still showed them
>> 
>> so I tried rm-kernels again same response 
>> 
>> then I did a manual
>> 
>> rm -rf of all the 3.x.x.* kernels
>> 
>> reboot
>> 
>> Wallpaper only no launcher or top panel, left for 20 minutes
>> 
>> could not get a terminal (Ctrl+Shift+T) to let me shutdown, so had to power 
>> down
>> 
>> Reboot - Advanced - Recovery - Resume
>> 
>> All working ;->)
>> 
>> Reboot 
>> 
>> back to just wallpaper
>> 
>> Reboot - Advanced - Recover - Resume
>> 
>> Working again
>> 
>> --reinstall desktop & unity
>> 
>> no change on reboot
>> 
>> rinse and repeate
>> 
>> So ok bad Karma, but why  
 
>> Advanced - Recover - Resume (latest kernel)
>> works (so everything needed is there?)
>> 
>> and Normal Boot to same Kernel? does not
 
>> what "should" I have done?

>You probably need to re-build the initramfs and/or rebuild grub.cfg. The
>recovery ramdisk is probably good (or at least good enough to get the recovery
>menu).
 
As various kernels had been removed  

update-grub has been run (a few times)

>> Probably not what I did do