On 07/29/2013 06:38 PM, Enrique Latorres wrote:
> Most likely is that you have a separate boot partition because you are using 
> lvm or an encrypted filesystem. Most kernel updates add a new kernel but do 
> not erase old versions. This way boot partition gets full. The solution is 
> simply to uninstall unused kernel images...
> if possible install aptitude, run "sudo aptitude search ~ilinux-image". This 
> will show you the installed kernels
> Just remove the older versions, keep two of the newest.
> Run "sudo apt-get autoremove linux-image-3.8.0-23-generic" for each of the 
> older kernels. Put your version here.
> This should free space on boot partition...
>
That's definitely the reason, but it's not a long-term solution. It's 
not 1995, we shouldn't expect users to have to manually remove packages 
just because they want an encrypted FS.

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  update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't
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