clean out old kernel versions?

[Dave Stevens]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 17:41:41 +0000
Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 17:29, Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 17:20:58 +0000
> > Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> > > Presumably you have not seen the script I suggested yet.
> > >
> > > Colin  
> >
> > sorry Colin, getting ahead in the exchange. Throws an error on
> > sed.  
> 
> Presumably again you didn't see the post clarifying where the
> newlines are.
> 
> Colin
> 

It's been running since our last exchange, fixing the newlines seems to
have worked. I'm not surprised that it's taking a while but (subject
to uncertainty induced by me getting bored and wandering off for
coffee) it seems to be looping. Currently like this:

Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-36-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-34-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-31-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-28-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-21-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Replacing config file /run/grub/menu.lst with new version


and has been sitting there for about ten minutes.

I'm considering using Robert Heller's suggestion about

"sudo apt install linux-image-generic"

but I'm thinking it might not be a good idea to interrupt the script
while it's updating "grub/menu.lst with new version"

Dave

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