[ubuntu-studio-devel] Boot partition and old kernel images - are we alone with this problem?

2015-12-10 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
I'm sure some of you have noticed that if you have a small boot partition (UEFI installs, generally), old kernel images are not being autoremoved, and when you do your third or whatever update you get a message that there's not enough room for the update. I haven't actually used a vanilla Ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Boot partition and old kernel images - are we alone with this problem?

2015-12-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 12:39:13 +0100, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: >I haven't actually used a vanilla Ubuntu system enough to know if this >is a problem there as well. It is a well known issue, I read about it on several other vanilla Ubuntu and Ubuntu flavour lists. -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Boot partition and old kernel images - are we alone with this problem?

2015-12-10 Thread lukefromdc
This sounds like what happens when you remove a kernel with /boot not mounted. On 12/10/2015 at 9:28 AM, "Len Ovens" wrote: > >On Thu, 10 Dec 2015, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 12:39:13 +0100, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: >>> I haven't actually used a vanilla Ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Boot partition and old kernel images - are we alone with this problem?

2015-12-10 Thread Len Ovens
On Thu, 10 Dec 2015, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 12:39:13 +0100, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: I haven't actually used a vanilla Ubuntu system enough to know if this is a problem there as well. It is a well known issue, I read about it on several other vanilla Ubuntu and Ubuntu flavour

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Boot partition and old kernel images - are we alone with this problem?

2015-12-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 06:27:43 -0800 (PST), Len Ovens wrote: >But for some reason ubuntu server does not have this problem. It's not a problem, but removing outdated kernels has to be done manually on my install from the server image. I suspect that if dkms is involved, then there also is the need

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Boot partition and old kernel images - are we alone with this problem?

2015-12-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 15:50:04 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 06:27:43 -0800 (PST), Len Ovens wrote: >>But for some reason ubuntu server does not have this problem. > >It's not a problem, but removing outdated kernels has to be done >manually on my install from the server image. I