On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 02:02:36PM -0000, Tiago Stürmer Daitx wrote: > A few questions: > - Could you please provide the output of the apt-get purge call? > - If update-initramfs is called in it, could you please manually call it with > the verbose flag (-v) and attach the output? > - Does this only happen on the half-configured scenario?
I have hypothesized that this is because these custom kernels only recommend initramfs-tools rather than depending on it, which allows the initramfs-tools package to be removed before the kernel image package is removed, and initramfs-tools does not consider itself responsible for removing the initramfs from disk on package purge. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-aws in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1793290 Title: Purging the custom kernel does not remove initramfs Status in linux-aws package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in linux-kvm package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Purge the kernel and you will be left with the initramfs in /boot and /var/lib/initramfs-tools. This is handled correctly for linux-generic /linux-virtual. * Launch a bionic/cosmic AWS image * Purge the kernel $ sudo apt-get purge --assume-yes '^linux-.*' 'linux-base+' initramfs* $ ls /boot/ grub initrd.img-4.15.0-1021-aws $ ls /var/lib/initramfs-tools/ 4.15.0-1021-aws This was seen with Bionic and Cosmic with linux-aws and linux-kvm Impact: during cloud image builds we remove one kernel and install the optimized kernel like linux-aws. The missing cleanup consumes disk space for images that are meant to be small; it also surfaces a latent bug in initramfs-tools where mkinitramfs will attempt to run to update every initramfs in /var/lib/initramfs-tools/ when it is only half- configured and it falls over. We'll work around this but the kernels should clean up when purged. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-aws/+bug/1793290/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
