*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1675079 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1675079
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1357093
Kernels not autoremoving, causing out of space error on LVM or Encrypted
installation or on any installation, when /boot partition gets full
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1675079
16.04 LTS Partition /boot fills up with Kernel images, gets underwear in a
twist
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417734
Title:
Old kernels are not removed and horribly clutter the system
Status in computer-janitor package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
I've been bitten twice by this - old kernels are not removed, slow
down dpkg and use tons of space. As an example:
vasil@shrike:~$ wc -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/*2.6.28*list
5656 /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-headers-2.6.28-15-generic.list
10357 /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-headers-2.6.28-15.list
2609 /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic.list
65 /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-15-generic.list
18687 total
So, from about 120k installed files one kernel takes 18k - a few of them can
already use as much files in the dpkg database as the rest of the installed
packages. Ubuntu updates its kernel at least 5 times during the normal
distribution life, and some of us have stuff running since the dawn of time, so
this starts to become a really nasty slowdown...
(and, there's also bug #414943, old kernels might be a really bad idea for
some people)
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