[Bug 1389620] [NEW] software-updater refuses to upgrade, needs a button to clean /boot

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Public bug reported:

I am running trusty with full disk encryption and thus a separate /boot partition.
Software updater, at times, fails to complete the upgrade telling me that /boot does not have enough free disk-space.

Well, it should have the button to "run apt-get autoremove" to
automatically remove packages that may be using disk space on /boot.
(Because on trusty, old kernels are automatically marked for
autoremoval)

This will also lower the amount of support requests elmo gets in the
office.

Also I believe infinity would be happy to not be bugged about enabling
autoremoval with unattended apt by default.

And mpt would be happy, that upgrades are self-serviced.

mvo, please, please, implement this =)

** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Michael Vogt (mvo)
         Status: New


** Tags: trusty

** Attachment added: "software-update-needs-clean-button.png"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1389620/+attachment/4253603/+files/software-update-needs-clean-button.png

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Title:
  software-updater refuses to upgrade, needs a button to clean /boot

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I am running trusty with full disk encryption and thus a separate /boot partition.
  Software updater, at times, fails to complete the upgrade telling me that /boot does not have enough free disk-space.

  Well, it should have the button to "run apt-get autoremove" to
  automatically remove packages that may be using disk space on /boot.
  (Because on trusty, old kernels are automatically marked for
  autoremoval)

  This will also lower the amount of support requests elmo gets in the
  office.

  Also I believe infinity would be happy to not be bugged about enabling
  autoremoval with unattended apt by default.

  And mpt would be happy, that upgrades are self-serviced.

  mvo, please, please, implement this =)

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