The nightly unattended-upgrade (which I've configured to Unattended- Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "true";) removed the .old kernel on two different 14.04 LTS servers last night, leaving both with no backup kernel at all.
In fact now that I'm paying attention again, I have quite a number of servers without a /vmlinuz.old. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1637797 Title: kernel referred to by /*.old autoremoved Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: apt-get suggests to remove and, with autoremove command, actually removes previous kernel referenced by /*.old links and breaks the ability to boot with a previous kernel. Kernel referenced by /*.old may not be autoremoved. # apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-3.13.0-88 linux-headers-3.13.0-88-generic linux-image-3.13.0-88-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-88-generic Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Press any key to continue... # ls -l /*.old lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jun 10 11:57 /initrd.img.old -> boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-88-generic lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jun 10 11:57 /vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-88-generic # uname -a Linux server 3.13.0-100-generic #147-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 18 16:49:53 UTC 2016 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux --- ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.21 Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-08-18 (1899 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427) NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.15 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-100.147-generic 3.13.11-ckt39 Tags: trusty Uname: Linux 3.13.0-100-generic i686 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-10-18 (743 days ago) UserGroups: _MarkForUpload: True To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1637797/+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
