I've recreated this on Ubuntu 16.04 now, it seems that the missing bit was creating a sufficiently small enough amount of free space on my /boot partition.
While running 'sudo apt install' did finish the removal and I was able to continue using apt, I did notice that I had a leftover / abandoned initrd.img-4.4.0-31-generic. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1678187 Title: Removing a linux-image-extra package fails, if /boot is about full To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/initramfs-tools/+bug/1678187/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
