Public bug reported:

After upgrading from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04, GRUB gave me a list of old
kernels that however were not in the package database:

This is the /boot directory
[CODE ]abi-2.6.35-22-generic         memtest86+_multiboot.bin
abi-2.6.35-24-generic         System.map-2.6.35-22-generic
abi-2.6.35-25-generic         System.map-2.6.35-24-generic
abi-2.6.35-27-generic         System.map-2.6.35-25-generic
abi-2.6.35-28-generic         System.map-2.6.35-27-generic
abi-2.6.38-8-generic          System.map-2.6.35-28-generic
config-2.6.35-22-generic      System.map-2.6.38-8-generic
config-2.6.35-24-generic      vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-22-generic
config-2.6.35-25-generic      vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-24-generic
config-2.6.35-27-generic      vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-25-generic
config-2.6.35-28-generic      vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-27-generic
config-2.6.38-8-generic       vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-28-generic
grub                          vmcoreinfo-2.6.38-8-generic
initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic
initrd.img-2.6.35-24-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.35-24-generic
initrd.img-2.6.35-25-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.35-25-generic
initrd.img-2.6.35-27-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.35-27-generic
initrd.img-2.6.35-28-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.35-28-generic
initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic   vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic
memtest86+.bin[/CODE]

but doing:
[CODE] dpkg -l | grep 2.6.35 [/CODE]
didn't show up anything.

Also, in /usr/src/ all old kernels headers were there.

[CODE]ls /usr/src/
bcmwl-5.60.48.36+bdcom           linux-headers-2.6.35-25-generic
easy_slow_down_manager-0.13.7    linux-headers-2.6.35-27
ipheth-1.0                       linux-headers-2.6.35-27-generic
linux-headers-2.6.35-22          linux-headers-2.6.35-28
linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic  linux-headers-2.6.35-28-generic
linux-headers-2.6.35-24          linux-headers-2.6.38-8
linux-headers-2.6.35-24-generic  linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic
linux-headers-2.6.35-25          samsung_backlight-0.13.7
[/CODE]

I removed entries related to old kernels manually both from /boot and
/usr/src and the ran sudo update-grub

** Affects: ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  old kernels are not completely removed from system after upgrade to
  11.04

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