Just for posterity's sake, I was able to solve my issue of older initrd's consuming all of the space in /boot by removing the ones whose kernel had been purged.
I had a /boot partition that was quite small and nearly every kernel upgrade would fail with "no space left on device" messages. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to initramfs-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152756 Title: stale files in /var/lib/initramfs-tools after removing kernel Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: initramfs-tools Removing a kernel image and accompanying headers with apt-get remove --purge does not seem to remove the corresponding configuration file in /var/lib/initramfs-tools. This leads to problems when either grub, a kernel, initramfs-tools or any other package which leads to a grub menu rebuild is installed, updated or removed. Eg. after having removed a kernel image (2.6.23-t23-04 - a homebrew image made with make-kpkg) this happens when I try to use apt: # apt-get install some_package E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. # dpkg --configure -a Setting up initramfs-tools (0.85eubuntu20) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.23-t23-04 Cannot find /lib/modules/2.6.23-t23-04 update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.23-t23-04 dpkg: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Removing the stale configuration files in /var/lib/initramfs-tools makes dpkg happy again As to whether this is a bug in initramfs-tools (which could ignore or remove configuration files for which no corresponding kernel image is found) or the kernel package (which could contain a config file reference to /var/lib/initramfs-tools/version_number-release) I'll leave to the respective package maintainers. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/152756/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
