[PLUG] laptop error msg out of space for /boot

Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 22:54:13 UTC 2016


On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Richard England <rlengland at frontier.com>
wrote:

> On 11/19/2016 09:50 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Richard England <rlengland at frontier.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 11/18/2016 05:54 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Russell Senior <
> >> russell at personaltelco.net>
> >>>> Denis> This is a recent install, so I expect that there may not be
> >>>> many
> >>>> Denis> kernels.  How do I see what older kernels I have?
> >>>>
> >>>> I use aptitude for package management.  Look for packages named
> >>>> linux-image-* and the associated linux-image-extra-*.  You want to
> purge
> >>>> them, I think.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Russell Senior, President
> >>>> russell at personaltelco.net
> >>> I looked using synaptic.  I see 4.4.0-42.62 both in generic and extra.
> >>> There are 7 earlier, all listed as installed.  But I also see
> >> 4.4.0-47.68,
> >>> yet uname shows 42.68.  Is it possible that the install of 47.68
> stalled
> >>> when I got that memory error?  But regardless, it seems I have some
> older
> >>> stuff to get rid of.
> >>>
> >>> But you said "..., I think."  That makes me reluctant.  Someone as
> >>> incompetent as I am needs certainty to minimize the chance of
> >> catastrophe.
> >>> -Denis
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> >> I'm not adept at Ubuntu but if you are installing updates with apt-get
> >> can't you use
> >>
> >> sudo apt autoremove --purge
> >>
> >> to remove the old kernels as well as other unused packages?
> >>
> > It worked.  Why do you say that I "cannot use" ?  Or are you asking a
> > question?
> >
> > -Denis
> > _______________________________________________
> I use Ubuntu mostly on VMs so I am rarely concerned with removing SW.
> The machines don't last long enough to merit updating much less removing.
>
> I was questioning my understanding and the applicability in your
> environment.
>
> Hope that helped clean things up for your update.
>
> ~


Yes.  /boot has only two versions now: 4.4.0-42 and -47.  So it worked.  I
had 8 before.

-Denis



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