Re: imminent /boot problem. [SOLVED (for a while!)]

2024-02-25 Thread Felix Miata
home user composed on 2024-02-25 21:17 (UTC-0700): > On 2/24/24 11:49 PM, Tim via users wrote: I'm curious how you installed it in the first place, then? >> home user: >>> That was about 11 years ago, so my memory of that is foggy and >>> incomplete. >>> I installed windows-7 first, proba

Re: imminent /boot problem. [SOLVED (for a while!)]

2024-02-25 Thread home user
On 2/25/24 4:52 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 7:39 PM home user mailto:mattis...@comcast.net>> wrote: [...] I wrestled for many days this past fall trying to make a working LiveUSB.  Couldn't get it to work.  I was able to establish that neither the sticks

Re: imminent /boot problem. [SOLVED (for a while!)]

2024-02-25 Thread home user
On 2/24/24 11:49 PM, Tim via users wrote: Tim: I'm curious how you installed it in the first place, then? home user: That was about 11 years ago, so my memory of that is foggy and incomplete. I installed windows-7 first, probably from a CD purchased from a local (near Washington, D.C) s

Re: imminent /boot problem. [SOLVED (for a while!)]

2024-02-24 Thread home user
On 2/22/24 11:21 AM, home user wrote: (f-38; gnome) Good morning, While doing my weekly "dnf upgrade" a little while ago, I got the following pop-up at the top of the screen" -- Low Disk Space on"boot" The volume "boot" has only 20.9 MB disk space remaining. Examine   Ignore -- Seeing

Re: follow-up - Re: /boot problem. [SOLVED]

2023-06-02 Thread home user
On 6/2/23 10:27 AM, stan via users wrote: On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 07:03:52 -0400 Go Canes wrote: On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 12:21 AM home user wrote: One more kernel update is needed to make sure the weekly patches does not keep too many kernels, and that the rescue kernel is updated. I don't belie

Re: follow-up - Re: /boot problem. [SOLVED]

2023-06-02 Thread stan via users
On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 07:03:52 -0400 Go Canes wrote: > On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 12:21 AM home user > wrote: > > One more kernel update is needed to make sure the weekly patches > > does not keep too many kernels, and that the rescue kernel is > > updated. > > I don't believe the rescue kernel gets

Re: follow-up - Re: /boot problem. [SOLVED]

2023-06-02 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 12:21 AM home user wrote: > One more kernel update is needed to make sure the weekly patches does not > keep too many kernels, and that the rescue kernel is updated. I don't believe the rescue kernel gets updated automatically. _

follow-up - Re: /boot problem. [SOLVED]

2023-06-01 Thread home user
On 5/18/23 4:21 PM, home user wrote: (f37 stand-alone dual-boot workstation) During this afternoon's patching (via dnf), a warning GUI popped up saying /boot is full.  It offered me the option to move /boot files to trash, but no option to delete anything.  I tried moving the rescue file to tr

Re: /boot problem. [SOLVED]

2023-05-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2023-05-23 at 18:08 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > Although re-installing something is rarely the solution.  It really > only makes sense if you know you've lost some of the packages files. Which you can check using 'rpm -V ' poc ___ users mailin

Re: /boot problem. [SOLVED]

2023-05-23 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2023-05-22 at 15:04 -0600, home user wrote: > The only ways an "upgrade over the top" should happen is if there's > something wrong in dnf or the kernels undergo serious growth. At > least I now know one thing to look for if this does happen. Actually, what I was referring to was when you

Re: /boot problem. [SOLVED]

2023-05-22 Thread home user
On 5/22/23 2:49 PM, Tim via users wrote: Tom Horsley: I don't know if it already appeared somewhere in this thread, but I think there is a DNF option you can set in the dnf.conf file to limit the number of old kernels it will keep around. That might help prevent a recurrence. home user: Yes,

Re: /boot problem. [SOLVED]

2023-05-22 Thread Tim via users
Tom Horsley: >> I don't know if it already appeared somewhere in this thread, but I >> think there is a DNF option you can set in the dnf.conf file to >> limit the number of old kernels it will keep around. That might >> help prevent a recurrence. home user: > Yes, I set that back to 3 during this

Re: /boot problem. [SOLVED]

2023-05-22 Thread home user
On 5/22/23 12:17 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 22 May 2023 12:02:19 -0600 home user wrote: If the problem happens again, I'll open a new thread. I don't know if it already appeared somewhere in this thread, but I think there is a DNF option you can set in the dnf.conf file to limit the numbe

Re: /boot problem. [SOLVED]

2023-05-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 22 May 2023 12:02:19 -0600 home user wrote: > If the problem happens again, I'll open a new thread. I don't know if it already appeared somewhere in this thread, but I think there is a DNF option you can set in the dnf.conf file to limit the number of old kernels it will keep around. That

Re: /boot problem. [SOLVED]

2023-05-22 Thread home user
On 5/18/23 4:21 PM, home user wrote: (f37 stand-alone dual-boot workstation) During this afternoon's patching (via dnf), a warning GUI popped up saying /boot is full.  It offered me the option to move /boot files to trash, but no option to delete anything.  I tried moving the rescue file to tr