Wednesday, October 11, 2017

17.10 - Can't Remove Old Kernels Due to Unmet Dependencies

I'm trying to remove old kernels on Ubuntu 17.10, but am being hit with an unmet dependencies error. My current kernel is linux 4.13.0-38-generic.



My output from dpkg -l | grep linux-image | awk '{print$2} is this:





linux-image-4.13.0-36-generic



linux-image-4.13.0-37-generic



linux-image-4.13.0-38-generic



linux-image-4.13.0-39-generic




linux-image-extra-4.13.0-36-generic



linux-image-extra-4.13.0-37-generic



linux-image-extra-4.13.0-38-generic



linux-image-extra-4.13.0-39-generic



linux-image-extra-4.13.0-41-generic




linux-image-generic




When I try to remove older kernels (sudo apt-get purge linux-image-x.x.x-x-generic), this is the error:




Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:

linux-image-extra-4.13.0-41-generic : Depends: linux-image-4.13.0-41-generic but it is not installed
linux-image-generic : Depends: linux-image-4.13.0-41-generic but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).




To fix the broken dependencies, I use sudo apt --fix-broken install, click Yes when asked whether I want to continue, and get this output:



Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libqpdf18 linux-headers-4.13.0-37 linux-headers-4.13.0-37-generic
linux-image-4.13.0-37-generic linux-image-extra-4.13.0-37-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
linux-image-4.13.0-41-generic
Suggested packages:
fdutils linux-doc-4.13.0 | linux-source-4.13.0 linux-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:

linux-image-4.13.0-41-generic
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/20.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 72.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 374331 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-image-4.13.0-41-generic_4.13.0-41.46_amd64.deb ...
Examining /etc/kernel/preinst.d/
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/preinst.d/intel-microcode 4.13.0-41-generic /boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-41-generic

Done.
Unpacking linux-image-4.13.0-41-generic (4.13.0-41.46) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-4.13.0-41-generic_4.13.0-41.46_amd64.deb (--unpack):
cannot copy extracted data for './boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-41-generic' to '/boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-41-generic.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space left on device)
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d .
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools 4.13.0-41-generic /boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-41-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub 4.13.0-41-generic /boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-41-generic
Errors were encountered while processing:

/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-4.13.0-41-generic_4.13.0-41.46_amd64.deb


Output of uname -r is: 4.13.0-38-generic



Output of df -h is:



Filesystem              Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 63G 0 63G 0% /dev
tmpfs 13G 2.7M 13G 1% /run

/dev/mapper/sdb2_crypt 1.9T 1004G 779G 57% /
tmpfs 63G 39M 63G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 63G 0 63G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/nvme0n1p1 1.1T 472G 573G 46% /mnt/scratch
/dev/sdb1 231M 222M 0 100% /boot
/dev/md126p1 9.1T 3.0T 6.2T 33% /mnt/10TB
tmpfs 13G 84K 13G 1% /run/user/1001
tmpfs 13G 0 13G 0% /run/user/1004

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