Full Boot Partition and Linux header service unmet dependencies

[atrh]

I know how to solve one problem at at time. Now, both of these problems happening to my Ubuntu server 12.04 and giving me headache.

Boot partition is full and I can't autoremove or manual purge the old kernel image. I can't also solve the dependency problem by installing new required packages. Any ideas?



$uname -r
3.2.0-56-generic



$ sudo dpkg --list 'linux-image*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-====================-====================-================================================== ======
un linux-image <none> (no description available)
un linux-image-3.0 <none> (no description available)
ii linux-image-3.2.0-23 3.2.0-23.36 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.2.0-34 3.2.0-34.53 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.2.0-35 3.2.0-35.55 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.2.0-36 3.2.0-36.57 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
rc linux-image-3.2.0-37 3.2.0-37.58 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
rc linux-image-3.2.0-38 3.2.0-38.61 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
rc linux-image-3.2.0-39 3.2.0-39.62 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
rc linux-image-3.2.0-40 3.2.0-40.64 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.2.0-41 3.2.0-41.66 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.2.0-43 3.2.0-43.68 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.2.0-44 3.2.0-44.69 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
in linux-image-3.2.0-52 <none> (no description available)
in linux-image-3.2.0-53 <none> (no description available)
ii linux-image-3.2.0-55 3.2.0-55.85 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.2.0-56 3.2.0-56.86 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
iF linux-image-3.2.0-57 3.2.0-57.87 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
iF linux-image-3.2.0-58 3.2.0-58.88 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
in linux-image-3.2.0-59 <none> (no description available)
iU linux-image-generic 3.2.0.57.68 Generic Linux kernel image
iU linux-image-server 3.2.0.57.68 Linux kernel image on Server Equipment.





$sudo apt-get autoremove

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 50%
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-server : Depends: linux-headers-server (= 3.2.0.57.68) but 3.2.0.59.70 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.





$df -l

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/CENTEX-root 147341808 80607744 59249444 58% /
udev 3563752 8 3563744 1% /dev
tmpfs 1429136 276 1428860 1% /run
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none 3572832 0 3572832 0% /run/shm
/dev/sda1 233191 229887 0 100% /boot

[oldfred]

If a server with out a desktop then you have to use command line to purge older kernels.

Determine your current kernel:
uname -a
uname -r
In synaptic search for linux-image to choose to delete old ones
Also command line in post #8
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1283521
cd /boot
ls vmlinuz*
sudo apt-get purge linux-image-[version]-generic linux-image-[version]-generic
Multiples, just be sure not to delete your current kernel:
sudo apt-get purge linux-image-3.5.0-{XX,XX,XX,XX,XX,XX}-generic
Example:
sudo apt-get purge linux-image-3.5.0-{17,18,19,21,22,23,24}-generic

And then you have to empty trash.

RecoverLostDiskSpace
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoverLostDiskSpace
HOWTO: Recover Lost Disk Space - drs305
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1122670
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=898573

If old kernels not still in dpkg, then you have to delete each file manually and empty root trash.