On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Russell Senior <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> >>>>> "Denis" == Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> Denis> Seems like initramfs ran into a memory limit.  I really do not
>> Denis> know what this is about, but poking around the web gives me the
>> Denis> idea that an upgrade was attempted but did not have room.  A bug
>> Denis> report indicated that initramfs-tools does not check for memory
>> Denis> sufficiency:
>> Denis> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+
>> bug/798414
>>
>> Denis> I have made a startup usb stick in preparation for what I might
>> Denis> have to do to enlarge or make room in the partition.
>>
>> Denis> Free says (kbytes): total used free shared buff/cache available
>> Denis> Mem: 8013756 1198896 1742336 279424 5072524 6196764
>>
>> Denis> sudo partx --show /dev/sda [sudo] password for denis: NR START
>> Denis> END SECTORS SIZE NAME UUID 1 2048 999423 997376 487M 458a71eb-01
>> Denis> 2 1001470 250068991 249067522 118.8G 458a71eb-02 5 1001472
>> Denis> 250068991 249067520 118.8G 458a71eb-05
>>
>> Denis> According to gnome disks, it looks like partition 1 is 511 Mb,
>> Denis> and 92.9% full. It is Ext2 (how that happened I do not know.  It
>> Denis> is a 128G SSD.)  I have yet to install gparted.
>>
>> Denis> What do you recommend?  (The desktop is still down because of the
>> Denis> display).
>>
>> Old kernels and associate entourage tend to pile up on ubuntu.  I usually
>> check to see what kernel I'm running with "uname -a" and then remove
>> everything except the newest and the one I'm still running.  However, I
>> do this in an awkward and manual way that I wouldn't readily recommend
>> to others.  It does work though.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Russell Senior, President
>> [email protected]
>
>
> This is a recent install, so I expect that there may not be many kernels.
> How do I see what older kernels I have?
>
> -Thanks
>

uname -a
Linux denis-ThinkPad-L420 4.4.0-42-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7
23:11:45 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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