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[Bill Meier <798414@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can't believe they haven't taken care of this yet. When I go to delete 
the older kernels I get denied. I tried some other things I saw 
mentioned but, probably because I didn't know what I was doing, they 
didn't work for me either. Now, I make sure all my data is on the other 
hard drive and just reinstall the system... start over. I am running 
Lubuntu 15.04 now, we'll see.

On 10/12/2015 02:26 PM, Justin wrote:
> I had this problem about a month ago and deleted old kernels and it
> worked fine at that point. I had tried a few different flavors before I
> settled on Lubuntu so I thought that might be why I had the older kernel
> versions floating around. Here I am with the same problem again.
>
> Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root  228G   14G  204G   7% /
> none                         4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> udev                         479M  8.0K  479M   1% /dev
> tmpfs                         99M  1.5M   98M   2% /run
> none                         5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
> none                         493M   76K  493M   1% /run/shm
> none                         100M   24K  100M   1% /run/user
> /dev/sda2                    237M  232M     0 100% /boot
>
> sda2 is chock full again so I checked my kernels:
>
> i   linux-image-3.16.0-44-generic   - Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 3
> i   linux-image-3.16.0-45-generic   - Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 3
> i   linux-image-3.16.0-46-generic   - Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 3
> i   linux-image-3.16.0-48-generic   - Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 3
> i   linux-image-3.16.0-49-generic   - Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 3
> i   linux-image-3.16.0-50-generic   - Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 3
> i   linux-image-extra-3.16.0-44-gen - Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.1
> i   linux-image-extra-3.16.0-45-gen - Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.1
> i   linux-image-extra-3.16.0-46-gen - Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.1
> i   linux-image-extra-3.16.0-48-gen - Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.1
> i   linux-image-extra-3.16.0-49-gen - Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.1
>
> I am confident that I had deleted all but 49 and 50 last time but here
> they are again. I'll admit that I am a relative noob on linux so the
> problem may be with the user! I am posting this information primarily to
> try and help. I'm going to delete the extra kernels again and see how it
> goes.
>

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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 Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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 or manually free space on
  your partition containing the /boot file system.

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