[clug] Ubuntu jerkiness

[Andrew Donnellan]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 at 10:14, Elena Williams via linux <
linux at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Is this the expected Ubuntu life-cycle workflow?
>
> Is it just me or is it that you'll have an installation and then after a
> while it'll start throwing this error and you'll have to manually go
> through and play purge lotto with old kernels?
>
> Of course if you don't resolve this error you can't run updates any more
> (as /boot is full).
>
> Maybe this is just something I personally am doing wrong or is this just
> something that will happen to any installation over time?
>
> Is there some maintenance routine I'm missing that will obviate this
> situation?
>
> This is irritating and importantly time-wasting for *me* -- but the risk is
> that Ubuntu is not suitable for "non technical" users (teaching my old Dad
> to cherry-pick out redundant kernel versions yeah-nah).
>
> It is a terrifying idea that the nett effect may be that if by using all
> the defaults an "average" user will just stop receiving updates after a
> while.
>

The obvious solution is to not have a separate /boot - the vast majority of
setups gain nothing from having a separate /boot partition these days, I
haven't had one for years.

Does Ubuntu still do that by default?

-- 
Andrew Donnellan
http://andrew.donnellan.id.au         andrew at donnellan.id.au