Why not just write a little GUI app for us , so that we "command line illiterates" can take care of this. We need to select what we want deleted, just getting rid of the old, I understand, may not be what is wanted.
Bill On 05/05/2017 03:13 AM, Michael Baker wrote: > On booting I am told that a system program has encountered an error and asked > if I want to send a report. On saying yes I'm told that the bug has already > been reported and that it is "update-initramfs should produce a more helpful > error when there isn't enough free space". > This is so far from what is happening that it is infuriating. > The basis of the problem is that /boot is not being cleaned up automatically. > This was a bug which was supposedly fixed in 16.04 UTS, but apparently not. > As a retired software engineer I know that I can clean up /boot manually, and > have done so many times. > However I shouldn't have to. > Please stop classifying the /boot partition being full as "update-initramfs > should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space". > This bug (/boot not being cleaned up automatically) should be given the > highest possible importance. > It must be a complete turn of to any ubuntu user who does not have computer > science skills (and to many who do). > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to initramfs-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798414 Title: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space Status in initramfs-tools: Confirmed Status in Software Updater: New Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: Binary package hint: initramfs-tools When generating a new initramfs there is no check for available free space, subsequently its possible for update-initramfs to fail due to a lack of free space. This is resulting in package installation failures for initramfs-tools. For example: Setting up initramfs-tools (0.98.8ubuntu3) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic gzip: stdout: No space left on device E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1 update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 WORKAROUND: Remove unused kernels using computer janitor (not in repositories for 14.04 or later) or manually free space on your partition containing the /boot file system. See instructions here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RemoveOldKernels To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/initramfs-tools/+bug/798414/+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
