I have two Precise (12.04) servers with Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "true";
in 50unattended-upgrades. One of them cleans up its kernels and only keeps the last two; one of them accumulates kernels over time, and I occasionally get alerts about /boot filling up. On the latter machine, "apt-get autoremove --purge" doesn't remove them. I end up removing the packages individually; the script "purge-old- kernels" referred to above doesn't seem to exist. The main difference I can see is that the latter machine has linux- image-generic-lts-trusty, whereas the first machine has linux-image- server. Both machines have in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/05aptitude: aptitude::Keep-Unused-Pattern "^linux-image.*$ | ^linux-restricted- modules.*$ | ^linux-ubuntu-modules.*$"; So I don't think that's it. I suppose there won't be too many kernel updates for Precise before it goes end of life now though... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unattended-upgrades in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1357093 Title: Kernels not autoremoving, causing out of space error on LVM or Encrypted installation or on any installation, when /boot partition gets full Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Currently if one chooses to use LVM or encrypted install, a /boot partition is created of 236Mb Once kernel updates start being released this partition soon fills until people are left unable to upgrade. While you and I might know that we need to watch partition space, many of the people we have installing think that a windows disk is a disk and not a partition, education is probably the key - but in the meantime support venues keep needing to deal with the fact the partition is too small and/or old kernels are not purged as new ones install. For workaround and sytem repair, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/RemoveOldKernels To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/1357093/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
