[Bug 924742] Re: The link /vmlinuz.old is a damaged link

2015-01-16 Thread Neal McBurnett
According to http://serverfault.com/questions/4427/damaged-vmlinuz-and-initrd-img-symbolic-links-after-kernel-uninstall this error message was old 5 years ago, when folks might still have been using lilo, which relied on these symbolic links, unlike grub. Assuming that is true, shouldn't we just

[Bug 924742] Re: The link /vmlinuz.old is a damaged link

2012-02-01 Thread Phillip Susi
This is not a bug; it is simply warning you that your /boot/vmlinuz.old link is broken. You appear to have compiled your own kernel at some point and later removed it, but left the vmlinuz.old symlink in place. ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bu

[Bug 924742] Re: The link /vmlinuz.old is a damaged link

2012-02-01 Thread David Henningsson
** Description changed: - I got this error, which seemed a bit scary: + I got this error, which seemed a bit scary, although so far I haven't + seen it cause any problems. - $ sudo apt-get remove linux-image-3.2.0-11-generic + $ sudo apt-get remove linux-image-3.2.0-11-generic Läser paketlis

[Bug 924742] Re: The link /vmlinuz.old is a damaged link

2012-02-01 Thread David Henningsson
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