Bug#1101491: plasma-discover: Old kernels never get removed so /boot eventually runs out of space
Package: plasma-discover
Version: 5.27.5-2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I am reporting this bug on behalf of a user I support, but unfortunately without
direct access to the affected system.
After a few months of successful operation with Debian stable and automatic
updates, the automatic updates recently started failing. It quickly turned out
that the problem is a full "/boot" disk: update-initramfs was failing with "no
space left on device". We managed to fix the issue by running "sudo apt
autoremove" by hand.
However, this is not something non-technical users will know to do. They
reasonably expect the auto-updater to be able to deal with a continuous stream
of updates. For some reason the Debian installer makes /boot really small by
default (this one is 456MB), but the size of /boot does not really matter -- the
size is finite in any case, so old kernels do eventually have to be removed, and
when an auto-updater is configured, this should not require any manual user
intervention.
So, it would be great if plasma-discover, when it automatically installs
updates, could also automatically remove old unused packages, to avoid /boot
eventually running out of space.
Kind regards,
Ralf
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