I am glad that it sorted your problem. All you need to do, what I do anyway, is to run the auto remove command every few months, or as often as you feel like in order to remove old packages and kernel versions. It took a while to fill your /boot partition, so you should have about the same time before seeing the problem again.
When apt removes the unused kernel packages, it takes care of Grub configuration too. Enjoy the rest of the weekend, Tomas On Sat, 2016-11-19 at 14:54 -0800, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Richard England < > rlengl...@frontier.com> > wrote: > > > On 11/19/2016 09:50 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Richard England < > > > rlengl...@frontier.com > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > On 11/18/2016 05:54 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Russell Senior < > > > > russ...@personaltelco.net> > > > > > > Denis> This is a recent install, so I expect that there may > > > > > > not be > > > > > > many > > > > > > Denis> kernels. How do I see what older kernels I have? > > > > > > > > > > > > I use aptitude for package management. Look for packages > > > > > > named > > > > > > linux-image-* and the associated linux-image-extra-*. You > > > > > > want to > > purge > > > > > > them, I think. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Russell Senior, President > > > > > > russ...@personaltelco.net > > > > > I looked using synaptic. I see 4.4.0-42.62 both in generic > > > > > and extra. > > > > > There are 7 earlier, all listed as installed. But I also see > > > > 4.4.0-47.68, > > > > > yet uname shows 42.68. Is it possible that the install of > > > > > 47.68 > > stalled > > > > > when I got that memory error? But regardless, it seems I > > > > > have some > > older > > > > > stuff to get rid of. > > > > > > > > > > But you said "..., I think." That makes me reluctant. > > > > > Someone as > > > > > incompetent as I am needs certainty to minimize the chance of > > > > catastrophe. > > > > > -Denis > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > PLUG mailing list > > > > > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > > > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > I'm not adept at Ubuntu but if you are installing updates with > > > > apt-get > > > > can't you use > > > > > > > > sudo apt autoremove --purge > > > > > > > > to remove the old kernels as well as other unused packages? > > > > > > > It worked. Why do you say that I "cannot use" ? Or are you > > > asking a > > > question? > > > > > > -Denis > > > _______________________________________________ > > I use Ubuntu mostly on VMs so I am rarely concerned with removing > > SW. > > The machines don't last long enough to merit updating much less > > removing. > > > > I was questioning my understanding and the applicability in your > > environment. > > > > Hope that helped clean things up for your update. > > > > ~ > > > Yes. /boot has only two versions now: 4.4.0-42 and -47. So it > worked. I > had 8 before. > > -Denis > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
