I'd say that help with how to remove redundant kernels is a support request, so @Jan: Please ask for help at e.g. <http://askubuntu.com>.
Closing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-docs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1641120 Title: too many kernels produce start loop Status in ubuntu-docs package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: After performing the last update, I followed the advice to restart the computer. Then it got into a loop. After typing the correct password, the screen went 'ploink' and presented again an empty password field. No failsafe option was present. Upon getting help from an expert, this expert discovered that there were many old linux kernels, all the way back to 2.6.23 en 3.13. This took a lot of time too. Something to do with NVIDIA-drivers needing gcc. On starting all the init-ramdisks had to be update for all those kernel versions. (Says my expert.) I have had several computers, and each time I copied the entire hard disk of one to the next one. The remedy was to remove all old kernel versions. I consider this a bug. Installing a new kernel without removing old ones causes apparently serious problems. Ordinary users who have no idea about what is "under the hood" are seriously handicapped and not all of them have easy access to an expert who can fix things in a couple of hours. I have Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS apt-cache policy pkgname yields no information. I am not sure that have too many outdated linux kernels is something in a specific package. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/1641120/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~documentation-packages Post to : documentation-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~documentation-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
