This bug has just hosed a system I installed for my parents. An unattended-upgrader that breaks your system if you don't attend to it IS broken.
Having known about this problem for many years, the least you could have done is added a warning to the installer that choosing lvm or encryption will make a system that breaks itself. The idea that novice users can just run script workarounds is entirely unrealistic. a) They don't know about the problem if they haven't been told (burying it deep in the manuals or text that whizzes by is not good enough) b) from a security PoV they shouldn't be run anything they cut & paste in The general attitude to a major showstopper that is causing a lot of pain for novice users shown in this bug is frankly appalling and I'm pretty much inclined to ditch Ubuntu because of it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unattended-upgrades in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1357093 Title: Kernels not autoremoving, causing out of space error on LVM or Encrypted installation or on any installation, when /boot partition gets full Status in unattended-upgrades: New Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Currently if one chooses to use LVM or encrypted install, a /boot partition is created of 236Mb Once kernel updates start being released this partition soon fills until people are left unable to upgrade. While you and I might know that we need to watch partition space, many of the people we have installing think that a windows disk is a disk and not a partition, education is probably the key - but in the meantime support venues keep needing to deal with the fact the partition is too small and/or old kernels are not purged as new ones install. For workaround and sytem repair, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RemoveOldKernels To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unattended-upgrades/+bug/1357093/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
