How to fix full boot partition with unmet dependencies












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My Ubuntu instance will do security updates until boot partition is full and from then on kernel updates will fail.



When boot is full it is also not possible to remove older kernels because there are unmet dependencies. Apt will not allow those unmet dependencies to exist. As shown below, I cannot purge 138 because of unmet dependencies but I also cannot install 138 because the disk is full.



I suppose at this point I have edit dependencies manually. Bypassing Apt. How can I fix this issue? Without completely reinstalling Ubuntu?



[user@mysystem:~] $ sudo apt-get purge linux-image-extra-4.4.0-138-generic linux-image-4.4.0-138-generic 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'linux-image-4.4.0-138-generic' is not installed, so not removed
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-image-generic : Depends: linux-image-4.4.0-138-generic but it is not going to be installed
Depends: linux-image-extra-4.4.0-138-generic but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: thermald but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).








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    My Ubuntu instance will do security updates until boot partition is full and from then on kernel updates will fail.



    When boot is full it is also not possible to remove older kernels because there are unmet dependencies. Apt will not allow those unmet dependencies to exist. As shown below, I cannot purge 138 because of unmet dependencies but I also cannot install 138 because the disk is full.



    I suppose at this point I have edit dependencies manually. Bypassing Apt. How can I fix this issue? Without completely reinstalling Ubuntu?



    [user@mysystem:~] $ sudo apt-get purge linux-image-extra-4.4.0-138-generic linux-image-4.4.0-138-generic 
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    Package 'linux-image-4.4.0-138-generic' is not installed, so not removed
    You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    linux-image-generic : Depends: linux-image-4.4.0-138-generic but it is not going to be installed
    Depends: linux-image-extra-4.4.0-138-generic but it is not going to be installed
    Recommends: thermald but it is not going to be installed
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).








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      My Ubuntu instance will do security updates until boot partition is full and from then on kernel updates will fail.



      When boot is full it is also not possible to remove older kernels because there are unmet dependencies. Apt will not allow those unmet dependencies to exist. As shown below, I cannot purge 138 because of unmet dependencies but I also cannot install 138 because the disk is full.



      I suppose at this point I have edit dependencies manually. Bypassing Apt. How can I fix this issue? Without completely reinstalling Ubuntu?



      [user@mysystem:~] $ sudo apt-get purge linux-image-extra-4.4.0-138-generic linux-image-4.4.0-138-generic 
      Reading package lists... Done
      Building dependency tree
      Reading state information... Done
      Package 'linux-image-4.4.0-138-generic' is not installed, so not removed
      You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
      The following packages have unmet dependencies:
      linux-image-generic : Depends: linux-image-4.4.0-138-generic but it is not going to be installed
      Depends: linux-image-extra-4.4.0-138-generic but it is not going to be installed
      Recommends: thermald but it is not going to be installed
      E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).








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      My Ubuntu instance will do security updates until boot partition is full and from then on kernel updates will fail.



      When boot is full it is also not possible to remove older kernels because there are unmet dependencies. Apt will not allow those unmet dependencies to exist. As shown below, I cannot purge 138 because of unmet dependencies but I also cannot install 138 because the disk is full.



      I suppose at this point I have edit dependencies manually. Bypassing Apt. How can I fix this issue? Without completely reinstalling Ubuntu?



      [user@mysystem:~] $ sudo apt-get purge linux-image-extra-4.4.0-138-generic linux-image-4.4.0-138-generic 
      Reading package lists... Done
      Building dependency tree
      Reading state information... Done
      Package 'linux-image-4.4.0-138-generic' is not installed, so not removed
      You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
      The following packages have unmet dependencies:
      linux-image-generic : Depends: linux-image-4.4.0-138-generic but it is not going to be installed
      Depends: linux-image-extra-4.4.0-138-generic but it is not going to be installed
      Recommends: thermald but it is not going to be installed
      E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).






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