Why not just write a little GUI app for us , so that we "command line illiterates" can take care of this. We need to select what we want deleted, just getting rid of the old, I understand, may not be what is wanted.
Bill On 05/05/2017 03:13 AM, Michael Baker wrote: > On booting I am told that a system program has encountered an error and asked > if I want to send a report. On saying yes I'm told that the bug has already > been reported and that it is "update-initramfs should produce a more helpful > error when there isn't enough free space". > This is so far from what is happening that it is infuriating. > The basis of the problem is that /boot is not being cleaned up automatically. > This was a bug which was supposedly fixed in 16.04 UTS, but apparently not. > As a retired software engineer I know that I can clean up /boot manually, and > have done so many times. > However I shouldn't have to. > Please stop classifying the /boot partition being full as "update-initramfs > should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space". > This bug (/boot not being cleaned up automatically) should be given the > highest possible importance. > It must be a complete turn of to any ubuntu user who does not have computer > science skills (and to many who do). > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798414 Title: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/initramfs-tools/+bug/798414/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
