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Not enough free disk space

The upgrade has aborted. The upgrade needs a total of 103 M free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 12,4 M of disk space on '/boot'. You can remove old kernels using 'sudo apt autoremove' and you could also set COMPRESS=xz in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf to reduce the size of your initramfs.

i have tried deleting old kernels, clean up with tweak and boot does not empty

any hints of what and how i should delete from the following, are welcome

1,5M    /boot/abi-4.15.0-23-generic
213K    /boot/config-4.15.0-23-generic
221K    /boot/config-5.0.0-31-generic
221K    /boot/config-5.0.0-32-generic
6,7M    /boot/grub
57M     /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-29-generic
13M     /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-62-generic
41M     /boot/initrd.img-5.0.0-32-generic
12K     /boot/lost+found
180K    /boot/memtest86+.bin
182K    /boot/memtest86+.elf
182K    /boot/memtest86+_multiboot.bin
4,3M    /boot/System.map-5.0.0-31-generic
4,3M    /boot/System.map-5.0.0-32-generic
8,5M    /boot/vmlinuz-5.0.0-32-generic

sudo du -sh /boot/* gives bash: /usr/bin/sudo: Permission denied

planet rocker
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  • Please [edit] your question to include the output of sudo du -sh /boot/*. sudo apt autoremove should have cleared out some old kernels but sometimes things get gunged up. – Oli Oct 30 '19 at 21:47

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You can delete these (provided you boot into 5.0.0):

57M     /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-29-generic
13M     /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-62-generic

You can use these commands:

sudo rm /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-29-generic
sudo rm /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-62-generic

But first verify that you are not using the kernels 4.15.0 or 4.4.0 by running:

uname -a

Please note that normally it is not advised to delete these files manualy, though I have done it in the past multiple times without any problems, if you take the precautions mentioned (the purge command should do exactly the same, though as Oli said "sometimes things get gunged up").

Bruni
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  • with which command ? no luck with sudo apt get purge – planet rocker Oct 31 '19 at 10:20
  • @planetrocker Please see my updated answer – Bruni Oct 31 '19 at 10:55
  • 5.0.0-32-generic do you provide freelance support ? – planet rocker Oct 31 '19 at 11:43
  • @planetrocker No, I do not. As you use 5.0.0 you are safe to delete the two files. – Bruni Oct 31 '19 at 12:12
  • one time logged into a password protected Macintosh with no password - and windows are windows... holy ubuntu foundation but ubuntu needs updates – planet rocker Oct 31 '19 at 12:21
  • 1,5M /boot/abi-4.15.0-23-generic 221K /boot/config-5.0.0-32-generic 6,7M /boot/grub 41M /boot/initrd.img-5.0.0-32-generic 12K /boot/lost+found 180K /boot/memtest86+.bin 182K /boot/memtest86+.elf 182K /boot/memtest86+_multiboot.bin 4,3M /boot/System.map-5.0.0-32-generic 8,5M /boot/vmlinuz-5.0.0-32-generic ------- can i delete anything else from the boot ? thanks ! – planet rocker Nov 01 '19 at 17:14
  • The two files I suggested should have sufficed. You can delete anything that references a version number you are not using. So, most of the files you mention should not be deleted. – Bruni Nov 04 '19 at 08:50
  • you are right, but after deleting entries we need sth like grub update and grub customizer to update cause my last update forgot could not update grub... but a new version was pushed and shall see what happens... if it goes bad with boot, will report, thanks – planet rocker Nov 04 '19 at 10:55
  • do you have any idea how we can put tickets to do for the next update ? one issue is that boot does not empty before updating and another is that grub does not get updated automatically... there are two issues which need some care – planet rocker Nov 04 '19 at 12:03
  • https://askubuntu.com/questions/5121/how-do-i-report-a-bug – Bruni Nov 04 '19 at 12:18
  • with a GUI on this web site or other similar ? this is a super bug – planet rocker Nov 04 '19 at 12:27
  • This website is not run by canonical, it is a Q&A site where users help users. – Bruni Nov 04 '19 at 12:56
  • is there any official website ? cause we do rounds and rounds like stupids... do you get my point ? the same issues repeat to everyone. otherwise we have to go for another OS, but which one ? – planet rocker Nov 04 '19 at 13:22
  • buddy do you have time to investigate about rygel ? i really do not like this preinstalled package... its another shitty package for surveilance – planet rocker Nov 05 '19 at 18:54
  • @planetrocker You can uninstall it if you want. It is a DLNA server, nothing mystic about it. – Bruni Nov 06 '19 at 08:48
  • it think it was transmitting desktop activity all alone... and there are many similar packages like this... – planet rocker Nov 07 '19 at 10:39
  • do you have any idea how to build the boot folder from the scratch because someone logged in my machine and deleted it ? i see just a grub folder inside boot folder – planet rocker Nov 07 '19 at 12:30
  • No, just open a new question. Commends are not supposed to be used as a forum. – Bruni Nov 07 '19 at 12:35