Public bug reported: I did a full-disk installation (using graphical installer and automatic partitioning) with full-disk encryption on a 200GB disk, and Ubuntu chose to only allocate 141MB to the /boot partition .
So now yesterday when the system updater ran, I got an error that I was out of space on the /boot partition. No option to automatically uninstall old kernels, or hint about how to do it manually. Either 1) the installer needs to allocate more space for /boot , 2) the updater needs to offer to automatically remove old kernels, or 3) old kernels need to be uninstalled without asking. Probably all three. The current state of requiring manual non-intuitive trivial low-level maintenance is not "Linux for human beings". ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: debian-installer (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-34.60-generic 3.13.11.4 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-34-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sat Aug 23 10:08:18 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-18 (126 days ago) InstallationMedia: It MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EP35-DS3R MemoryUsage: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8175704 1988124 6187580 45340 44376 556760 -/+ buffers/cache: 1386988 6788716 Swap: 8388604 0 8388604 ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.13.0-34-generic root=/dev/mapper/it--vg-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: debian-installer UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 06/19/2009 dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc. dmi.bios.version: F4 dmi.board.name: EP35-DS3R dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.board.version: x.x dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF4:bd06/19/2009:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnEP35-DS3R:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnEP35-DS3R:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr: dmi.product.name: EP35-DS3R dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. ** Affects: debian-installer (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1360556 Title: Boot partition runs out of space, requires manual uninstallation of old kernels To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/1360556/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs