https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432513
Bug ID: 432513
Summary: Discover/Packagekit appears to be marking packages as
manually installed
Product: Discover
Version: 5.18.5
Platform: Ubuntu Packages
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: PackageKit
Assignee: lei...@leinir.dk
Reporter: er...@ericheickmeyer.com
CC: aleix...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
With the machines I help administer, we have been finding situations where the
/boot directory is filling-up beyond 3 kernels on LUKS encrypted systems. apt
autoremove is not removing old kernels as expected, nor is unattended-upgrades
on the Ubuntu machines picking-up on the removable kernels.
We have had a system with as many as 15 kernel packages installed as a result
of this not working as expected.
The majority of these machines are using Discover to do their package
upgrading, which uses PackageKit as its backend.
This has led us to believe that Discover and Packagekit are possibly marking
apt packages that should be marked as "auto" as "manual". We were able to get
unattended-upgrades to to the trick and "apt autoremove" to do its job by using
"apt-mark auto linux-image-${version}-generic). However, this manual
intervention should not be required.
Per this downstream bug, we have confirmed that the problem does not lie in apt
nor unattended-upgrades.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Run Kubuntu normally on a LUKS encrypted system
2. Wait a few upgrades on the kernels over time
3. Kernels do not get automatically removed and /boot partition fills-up.
OBSERVED RESULT
Boot partition gets full blocking further upgrades of any packages. Unused/old
kernel images do not get automatically removed. Investigation shows new kernel
versions are marked as manually installed.
EXPECTED RESULT
Unused kernel images should be automatically removed upon reboot and/or using
"apt autoremove". Applications installed from a metapackage (case in point,
linux-image-generic) should be marked as auto-installed, allowing the
autoremove process to work as expected.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0
Qt Version: 5.12.8
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