This affects the upgrade tool as well - if the user gets the prompt to
do the update to 16.04 and clicks "upgrade", it downloads the update
tool, starts to check and see if it can do the upgrade, and then fails
with the same "not enough disk space" error.

It also doesn't offer an easy way to correct the issue and the continue
running the upgrade, so the user is left with an error box that can only
be closed and no easy way to re-start the update after fixing the
problem (assuming they can figure out how to fix the problem).

The last few times I've seen this issue, it seems that apt-get
autoremove actually correctly identifies the old installed kernel files
and removes them properly (it was inconsistent before as to whether
autoremove would work) - perhaps simply offering the user an option to
'clean up old system files' and then run autoremove would be sufficient?

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