[Bug 417734] [NEW] Old kernels are not removed and horribly clutter the system

[Vasil Kolev]

Public bug reported:

I've been bitten twice by this - old kernels are not removed, slow down
dpkg and use tons of space. As an example:

vasil at shrike:~$ wc  -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/*2.6.28*list
   5656 /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-headers-2.6.28-15-generic.list
  10357 /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-headers-2.6.28-15.list
   2609 /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic.list
     65 /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-15-generic.list
  18687 total

So, from about 120k installed files one kernel takes 18k - a few of them can already use as much files in the dpkg database as the rest of the installed packages. Ubuntu updates its kernel at least 5 times during the normal distribution life, and some of us have stuff running since the dawn of time, so this starts to become a really nasty slowdown...
(and, there's also bug #414943, old kernels might be a really bad idea for some people)

** Affects: linux-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Old kernels are not removed and horribly clutter the system
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417734
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