Comment 10 for bug 798414
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| Andy Balaam (mail-artificialworlds) wrote Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space | #10 |
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Warning: removing kernel packages can be dangerous, and might even leave your system unable to boot, so please don't do this if you don't understand what is going on.
I fixed this on my system by removing some old kernels, that I am not using any more.
I checked what kernel I am using like this:
uname -r
This gave me a version number of a kernel I MUST NOT remove because I am using it.
Then I checked what kernels were installed like this:
sudo apt-get remove linux-<TAB>
I.e. I typed "sudo apt-get remove linux-" and pressed the TAB key twice to see a list of possible completions. I chose the linux-image-* and linux-image-extra-* packages that contained versions of the kernel that I was not running, and removed them like this:
sudo apt-get remove linux-image-
The exact list of packages in the "remove" line might be different for you - I found it out by doing what I describe at the top.
Then I made sure the recently-downloaded kernel packages that failed to configure were ok by running:
sudo apt-get upgrade
Warning: removing kernel packages can be dangerous, and might even leave your system unable to boot, so please don't do this if you don't understand what is going on.