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192 questions linked to/from How do I remove old kernel versions to clean up the boot menu?
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dpkg --list 'linux-image-*' results in Unknown / Not installed
So I'm manually deleting old kernels and did a dpkg --list 'linux-image-*' and I get:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/...
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Installed xubuntu-desktop on Lubuntu - cannot login to xubuntu/xfce session
So, I installed the xubuntu-desktop package on my Lubuntu netbook, but when I went to login to a xubuntu session nothing happened. The screen simply went momentarily blank and then came up with the ...
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I want to increase the size of my boot partition (Ubuntu 14.04 version) [duplicate]
I read in another post that kernels are distributed as new releases rather than upgrades. I didn't know this when I was allocating space to my partitions during my initial install of Ubuntu. As a ...
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/dev/sda1 /boot is full [duplicate]
I know there are a lot of questions like this but I've tried pretty much to understand what to do and failed.
By df -h I know that my /dev/sda1 /boot is with 100% use.
I'm not understanding what I ...
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Trouble in Boot Repair
I had a problem with my grub, it didn't recognize my OS, I have installed windows, ubuntu and kali. But then I tried to use Boot repair in a ubuntu live cd, and then I got to type.
sudo chroot "/mnt/...
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How to make linux-generic point to 4.9 and not linux-headers-4.4.0-62 after kernel upgrade from 4.4 to 4.9? [closed]
Using Ubuntu 16.04 ... I just upgraded my kernel from 4.4 to 4.9 which runs fine yet when I issue
apt-get upgrade
it suggests I install
The following packages have been kept back:
linux-generic ...
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What other software is available to remove old files/kernels to increase space and cleanup drive?
Like many others users, I need to remove files/kernels to increase space because I'm getting the error message that says I can't update because I have don't have enough space in /boot. I've searched ...
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How to INSTALL kernel 4.4 which no longer resides on the system and then remove kernel 4.10 from ubuntu 16.04
My bluetooth audio arrangement works with 4.4.0-7x but no kernel that I've tried in between that and now 4.10.0-32 and beyond. It's an IHB-23 speaker system that shows up as a headset. On somewhere ...
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Confusion with multiple linux kernel images - Ubuntu boots on older kernel
I m running Ubuntu 16.04. After a prompt by software update, that I discarded, as I booted I opened a terminal and run my update alias:
alias maintain='set -x; sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-...
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How to limit number of kernels shown in boot menu? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to remove the unwanted entries from the boot menu?
I want to limit the number of kernels shown in my boot screen to say only the two latest ones. How can I do this with ...
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Virtual Box won't load
I am unable to get Virtual Box to load since upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10. It tells me to rebuild the kernel modules by running /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup. When I do in terminal the system cannot find ...
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What exactly is /lib/modules/4.4.0-XX-generic/vdso/.build-id
I did a rootkit search with chkrootkit and it came up with this strange set of files:
/usr/lib/debug/.build-id
/lib/modules/4.4.0-51-generic/vdso/.build-id
/lib/modules/4.4.0-47-generic/vdso/....
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Trying to clean disk space, but can't remove packages
On my Ubuntu server, the root has taken up all the available disk space and I can't expand the partition. I'm trying to remove some old packages to free up some space but I can't because I don't have ...
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delete GRUB ubuntu 11.10
how do I delete grub on Ubuntu 11.10. I want to get into ubuntu normally without having to choose which operating system I would run. and how to remove ubuntu with older kernels as shown below
grub
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Old kernel version still running after several updates
Currently running 3.11.0-18, but many other later versions are installed. For some reason the updates aren't getting selected for grub:
$ uname -r
3.11.0-18-generic
Listing kernels:
$ sudo /usr/...