In a fresh installation of Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS I noticed, that autoremove suggests to remove linux-image-generic and also that linux-generic is not installed at all.
Is that a bug or did the management of kernel images change?
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On a fresh installation from the 14.04.1 iso, the package linux-generic 3.13.0.32.38 should have been installed.
You can observe what related packages are installed using this (and my example is NOT from the fresh not upgraded installation):
doug@s15:~/docs-1404/tt_01/html$ dpkg -l | grep linux
ii libselinux1:amd64 2.2.2-1ubuntu0.1 amd64 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii linux-firmware 1.127.11 all Firmware for Linux kernel drivers
ii linux-firmware-image 3.11.0-rc6-31 amd64 Linux kernel firmware, version 3.11.0-rc6
ii linux-firmware-image-3.19.0-rc1-250 3.19.0-rc1-250-181 amd64 Linux kernel firmware, version 3.19.0-rc1-250
ii linux-generic 3.13.0.45.52 amd64 Complete Generic Linux kernel and headers
ii linux-headers-3.13.0-43 3.13.0-43.72 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 3.13.0
ii linux-headers-3.13.0-43-generic 3.13.0-43.72 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-3.13.0-44 3.13.0-44.73 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 3.13.0
ii linux-headers-3.13.0-44-generic 3.13.0-44.73 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-3.13.0-45 3.13.0-45.74 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 3.13.0
ii linux-headers-3.13.0-45-generic 3.13.0-45.74 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-3.19.0-rc5-250 3.19.0-rc5-250-189 amd64 Linux kernel headers for 3.19.0-rc5-250 on amd64
ii linux-headers-generic 3.13.0.45.52 amd64 Generic Linux kernel headers
ii linux-headers-server 3.13.0.45.52 amd64 Transitional package.
ii linux-image-3.13.0-43-generic 3.13.0-43.72 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.13.0-44-generic 3.13.0-44.73 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.13.0-45-generic 3.13.0-45.74 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.19.0-rc5-250 3.19.0-rc5-250-189 amd64 Linux kernel, version 3.19.0-rc5-250
ii linux-image-extra-3.13.0-43-generic 3.13.0-43.72 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.13.0-44-generic 3.13.0-44.73 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.13.0-45-generic 3.13.0-45.74 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-generic 3.13.0.45.52 amd64 Generic Linux kernel image
ii linux-image-server 3.13.0.45.52 amd64 Transitional package.
ii linux-libc-dev:amd64 3.13.0-45.74 amd64 Linux Kernel Headers for development
ii linux-server 3.13.0.45.52 amd64 Transitional package.
ii util-linux 2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.3 amd64 Miscellaneous system utilities
Doug Smythies
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After initial fresh installation, was there a software update/upgrade?
Usually when the software update gets run, you get a suggestion to auto-remove older kernels.
So we can better answer your question, run:
sudo update-grub
Copy and paste the results here, it should look something like:
Generating grub.cfg
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-45-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-44-generic
and so on..... This will let us see exactly everything you've got installed.
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7bluehand: that wouldn't tell you about the linux-generic package. See the edit I just made to my answer. – Doug Smythies Feb 08 '15 at 00:23