I have gone back and removed all but one of the legacy kernels installed on my (fairly fresh) installation of 16.04 however one is refusing to be installed citing a dependency issue. Note that I have plenty of space (~350M) in /boot.
Code:
dpkg -l | tail -n +6 | grep -E 'linux-image-[0-9]+' | grep -Fv $(uname -r)
yields ...
Code:
pi linux-image-4.4.0-34-generic 4.4.0-34.53 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
When I try and --purge the old kernel ...
Code:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of linux-image-extra-4.4.0-34-generic:
linux-image-generic depends on linux-image-extra-4.4.0-34-generic.
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-extra-4.4.0-34-generic (--purge):
dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-34-generic
When I try and remove linux-image-generic, I get ...
Code:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of linux-image-generic:
linux-generic depends on linux-image-generic (= 4.4.0.34.36).
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-generic (--purge):
dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-generic
Which seems somewhat a circular dependency. Note that I am booting into the following kernel:
Code:
uname -r
4.7.2-040702-generic
Note that I removed kernels both older and more recent than 4.4.0.34.36 without issue, but some reason this one doesn't want to leave.
Thanks,
Mike
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