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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Accumulating kernels
From:       Charles Philip Chan <cpchan () bell ! net>
Date:       2014-06-29 17:20:04
Message-ID: 871tu73a63.fsf () karnak ! MagnumOpus ! khem
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Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> writes:

Hi Marcus:

> This is supposedly a job for "purge-kernels.service" run at boot.
> 
> Due to mistakes it was not default enabled.
> 
> Please all run once:
> 
> 	systemctl enable purge-kernels.service
> 
> On next reboot the superflous kernels will be cleaned. (You can trigger 
> it manually with
> 	systemctl start purge-kernels.service

Thanks for the tip. However, I got the same:

,----
> ConditionPathExists=/boot/do_purge_kernels was not met
`----

as Marco. So I did some googling and I did a:

,----
> touch /boot/do_purge_kernels
> systemctl start purge-kernels.service
`----

and the service started. However, this is the error that I am getting now:

,----[ systemctl status purge-kernels.service ]
> purge-kernels.service - Purge old kernels
> Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/purge-kernels.service; enabled)
> Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2014-06-29 11:04:16 EDT; 2h 8min ago
> Process: 6232 ExecStart=/sbin/purge-kernels (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
> Process: 6230 ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f /boot/do_purge_kernels (code=exited, \
> status=0/SUCCESS)
> Main PID: 6232 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
> 
> Jun 29 11:01:19 karnak systemd[1]: Starting Purge old kernels...
> Jun 29 11:03:02 karnak purge-kernels[6232]: /sbin/purge-kernels: Running kernel \
> 3.15.0-33.g9194b64-x86_64/desktop not installed.
> Jun 29 11:03:02 karnak purge-kernels[6232]: NOT removing any packages for flavor \
> x86_64/desktop.
> Jun 29 11:04:16 karnak purge-kernels[6232]: error: Failed dependencies:
> Jun 29 11:04:16 karnak purge-kernels[6232]: kernel-devel = 3.13.2-13.g97cc2ff is \
> needed by (installed) kernel-desktop-devel-3.13.2-13.2.g97cc2ff.x86_64
> Jun 29 11:04:16 karnak purge-kernels[6232]: kernel-devel = 3.13.7-21.ga68bc7c is \
> needed by (installed) kernel-desktop-devel-3.13.7-21.2.ga68bc7c.x86_64
> Jun 29 11:04:16 karnak systemd[1]: purge-kernels.service: main process exited, \
> code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Jun 29 11:04:16 karnak systemd[1]: Failed to start Purge old kernels.
> Jun 29 11:04:16 karnak systemd[1]: Unit purge-kernels.service entered failed state.
`----

Regards,
Charles

-- 
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