Wednesday, February 3, 2016

kernel - Major issues trying to clean up /boot

12.04 LTS here, first off let me start with a uname -a output for you





3.2.0-35-generic-pae #55-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 5 18:04:39 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux




So my boot partition was at 100%. A huge no-no, so I wanted to clean it up in order for me to upgrade vmware tools on this machine. I ran the usual



dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-    9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d' | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge


However when I try that I kept getting issues about unmet dependencies..





Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-generic : Depends: linux-headers-generic (= 3.2.0.37.44) but 3.2.0.38.46 is to be installed
linux-headers-generic : Depends: linux-headers-3.2.0-38-generic but it is not going to be installed
linux-image-generic : Depends: linux-image-3.2.0-37-generic but it is not going to be installed

linux-image-generic-pae : Depends: linux-image-3.2.0-37-generic-pae but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).




If I tried to install anything of course it would fail with not enough space left on /boot. So I moved some older kernels to /tmp for the time being. Here is my /tmp



drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     4096 Jan 14 19:34 hsperfdata_root
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7906868 May 29 2012 initrd.img-2.6.28-19-server.old.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17083030 Oct 26 10:57 initrd.img-3.2.0-27-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17096219 Oct 26 11:00 initrd.img-3.2.0-27-generic-pae

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17085508 Dec 31 08:20 initrd.img-3.2.0-33-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17099160 Dec 31 08:20 initrd.img-3.2.0-33-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17091480 Dec 31 08:23 initrd.img-3.2.0-34-generic
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Feb 22 11:07 mkinitramfs_LzTuqq
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 22 11:07 mkinitramfs-OL_lNbawL
-rw------- 1 root root 2249889 Jul 6 2012 System.map-3.2.0-27-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 2311276 Jul 6 2012 System.map-3.2.0-27-generic-pae
-rw------- 1 root root 2251905 Oct 18 13:27 System.map-3.2.0-33-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 2313292 Oct 18 13:41 System.map-3.2.0-33-generic-pae
-rw------- 1 root root 2252451 Nov 15 07:04 System.map-3.2.0-34-generic

-rw------- 1 root root 4855808 Jul 6 2012 vmlinuz-3.2.0-27-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 5010688 Jul 6 2012 vmlinuz-3.2.0-27-generic-pae
-rw------- 1 root root 4861280 Oct 18 13:27 vmlinuz-3.2.0-33-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 5015328 Oct 18 13:41 vmlinuz-3.2.0-33-generic-pae
-rw------- 1 root root 4862688 Nov 15 07:04 vmlinuz-3.2.0-34-generic
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 19:34 vmware-root


So now I try to aptitude safe-upgrade to see if it will fix the issues with the kernels and it did seem to install 3.2.0-38 but 3.2.0-37 is just not in /boot so I think that's the issue.




Here is what is in my boot (49% used after moving those to /tmp and now %69 used after aptitude safe-upgrade).



-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   795776 Jul  6  2012 abi-3.2.0-27-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 800453 Jul 6 2012 abi-3.2.0-27-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 797027 Oct 18 13:27 abi-3.2.0-33-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 801704 Oct 18 13:41 abi-3.2.0-33-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 797082 Nov 15 07:04 abi-3.2.0-34-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 797121 Dec 5 13:52 abi-3.2.0-35-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 801798 Dec 5 14:06 abi-3.2.0-35-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 797231 Jan 8 17:48 abi-3.2.0-36-generic

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 801908 Jan 8 18:03 abi-3.2.0-36-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 797340 Feb 19 08:29 abi-3.2.0-38-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 802017 Feb 19 08:44 abi-3.2.0-38-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147463 Jul 6 2012 config-3.2.0-27-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147401 Jul 6 2012 config-3.2.0-27-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147497 Oct 18 13:27 config-3.2.0-33-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147435 Oct 18 13:41 config-3.2.0-33-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147514 Nov 15 07:04 config-3.2.0-34-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147514 Dec 5 13:52 config-3.2.0-35-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147452 Dec 5 14:06 config-3.2.0-35-generic-pae

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147514 Jan 8 17:48 config-3.2.0-36-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147452 Jan 8 18:03 config-3.2.0-36-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147497 Feb 19 08:29 config-3.2.0-38-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147435 Feb 19 08:44 config-3.2.0-38-generic-pae
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 5120 Feb 22 11:25 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17092973 Dec 31 10:09 initrd.img-3.2.0-35-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17101417 Dec 31 10:09 initrd.img-3.2.0-35-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17093970 Jan 18 06:52 initrd.img-3.2.0-36-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17103977 Jan 18 06:52 initrd.img-3.2.0-36-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17090717 Feb 22 11:23 initrd.img-3.2.0-38-generic

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17098330 Feb 22 11:25 initrd.img-3.2.0-38-generic-pae
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jul 2 2009 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176764 Nov 27 2011 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178944 Nov 27 2011 memtest86+_multiboot.bin
-rw------- 1 root root 2252128 Dec 5 13:52 System.map-3.2.0-35-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 2314162 Dec 5 14:06 System.map-3.2.0-35-generic-pae
-rw------- 1 root root 2252687 Jan 8 17:48 System.map-3.2.0-36-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 2314721 Jan 8 18:03 System.map-3.2.0-36-generic-pae
-rw------- 1 root root 2253664 Feb 19 08:29 System.map-3.2.0-38-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 2315698 Feb 19 08:44 System.map-3.2.0-38-generic-pae

-rw------- 1 root root 4863712 Dec 5 13:52 vmlinuz-3.2.0-35-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 5017984 Dec 5 14:06 vmlinuz-3.2.0-35-generic-pae
-rw------- 1 root root 4864480 Jan 8 17:48 vmlinuz-3.2.0-36-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 5019456 Jan 8 18:03 vmlinuz-3.2.0-36-generic-pae
-rw------- 1 root root 4864128 Feb 19 08:29 vmlinuz-3.2.0-38-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 5018240 Feb 19 08:44 vmlinuz-3.2.0-38-generic-pae


No matter what I do I just cant clean out old kernels the proper way. It always gives me a dependency error and suggests to try apt-get-f install. Well even apt-get -f install gives me errors.




Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
linux-generic linux-image-generic linux-image-generic-pae
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-generic linux-image-generic linux-image-generic-pae
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.

Need to get 0 B/6,944 B of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-generic:
linux-image-generic depends on linux-image-3.2.0-37-generic; however:
Package linux-image-3.2.0-37-generic is not installed.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-generic:

linux-generic depends on linux-image-generic (= 3.2.0.37.44); however:
Package linux-image-generic is not configured yet.
linux-generic depends on linux-headers-generic (= 3.2.0.37.44); however:
Version of linux-headers-generic on system is 3.2.0.38.46.
dpkg: error processing linux-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-generic-pae:
linux-image-generic-pae depends on linux-image-3.2.0-37-generic-pae; however:
Package linux-image-3.2.0-37-generic-pae is not installed.

dpkg: error processing linux-image-generic-pae (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-server:
linux-image-server depends on linux-image-generic-pae; however:
Package linux-image-generic-pae is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:

linux-image-generic
linux-generic
linux-image-generic-pae
linux-image-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


No matter what I try it keeps referencing those liux images /kernels.



Please help!

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