Normally to remove an old kernel from my debian stable systems, I issue the
following command:
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apt purge linux-headers-<kernel-number>-amd64
linux-headers-<kernel-number>-common linux-image-<kernel-number>-amd64
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Following this recipe, which has always worked in the past, I issued:
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apt purge linux-headers-5.10.0-11-amd64 linux-headers-5.10.0-11-common
linux-image-5.10.0-11-amd64
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But it failed, with the error message:
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Purging configuration files for linux-image-5.10.0-11-amd64 (5.10.92-2) ...
rmdir: failed to remove '/lib/modules/5.10.0-11-amd64': Directory not empty
dpkg: warning: while removing linux-image-5.10.0-11-amd64, directory
'/lib/modules/5.10.0-11-amd64' not empty so not removed
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If I look in the named directory, I see:
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root@zbrew:~# ls -al /lib/modules/5.10.0-11-amd64
total 35
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 3 Jun 20 08:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 7 Jun 17 07:08 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2 Apr 25 07:53 misc
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and the directory /lib/modules/5.10.0-11-amd64/misc turns out to be empty.
So it seems reasonable to remove /lib/modules/5.10.0-11-amd64/misc/ manually
and re-execute the purge command.
But before I try that, I'm puzzled as to how this situation could have arisen.
Has anyone else seen this happen, and does anyone have a reasonable suggestion
as to how it could have occurred?
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