I accidentally ran apt-get autoremove twice on a couple of Ubuntu 14.04
LTS servers, and it removed the stale kernel (on 1st run) and the old
kernel (on 2nd run), leaving the latest kernel the only one available in
/boot.
The .old kernel was linux-headers-3.13.0-139-generic, and if I look at
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove-kernels, I see that it should've been
kept:
// DO NOT EDIT! File autogenerated by /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal
APT::NeverAutoRemove
{
"^linux-image-3\.13\.0-139-generic$";
"^linux-image-3\.13\.0-141-generic$";
"^linux-headers-3\.13\.0-139-generic$";
"^linux-headers-3\.13\.0-141-generic$";
"^linux-image-extra-3\.13\.0-139-generic$";
"^linux-image-extra-3\.13\.0-141-generic$";
"^linux-signed-image-3\.13\.0-139-generic$";
"^linux-signed-image-3\.13\.0-141-generic$";
"^kfreebsd-image-3\.13\.0-139-generic$";
"^kfreebsd-image-3\.13\.0-141-generic$";
"^kfreebsd-headers-3\.13\.0-139-generic$";
"^kfreebsd-headers-3\.13\.0-141-generic$";
"^gnumach-image-3\.13\.0-139-generic$";
"^gnumach-image-3\.13\.0-141-generic$";
"^.*-modules-3\.13\.0-139-generic$";
"^.*-modules-3\.13\.0-141-generic$";
"^.*-kernel-3\.13\.0-139-generic$";
"^.*-kernel-3\.13\.0-141-generic$";
"^linux-backports-modules-.*-3\.13\.0-139-generic$";
"^linux-backports-modules-.*-3\.13\.0-141-generic$";
"^linux-tools-3\.13\.0-139-generic$";
"^linux-tools-3\.13\.0-141-generic$";
};
The timestamp of /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal is very recent,
so I cannot guarantee that it had the same contents at the time of my
second apt-get autoremove run.
(Thankfully, running apt-get autoremove for the third time does not try
to remove my current--and only--kernel.)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1637797
Title:
kernel referred to by /*.old autoremoved
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
apt-get suggests to remove and, with autoremove command, actually
removes previous kernel referenced by /*.old links and breaks the
ability to boot with a previous kernel. Kernel referenced by /*.old
may not be autoremoved.
# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
linux-headers-3.13.0-88 linux-headers-3.13.0-88-generic
linux-image-3.13.0-88-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-88-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Press any key to continue...
# ls -l /*.old
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jun 10 11:57 /initrd.img.old ->
boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-88-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jun 10 11:57 /vmlinuz.old ->
boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-88-generic
# uname -a
Linux server 3.13.0-100-generic #147-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 18 16:49:53 UTC 2016
i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux
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ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.21
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-08-18 (1899 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.15
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-100.147-generic 3.13.11-ckt39
Tags: trusty
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-100-generic i686
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-10-18 (743 days ago)
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