On Saturday, February 15, 2014 12:57:36 PM Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
В Sat, 15 Feb 2014 15:25:09 +0700
"C. Brouerius van Nidek"
пишет: On Saturday, February 15, 2014 09:43:51 AM Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
В Sat, 15 Feb 2014 09:36:02 +0700 (WIT)
пишет: My system, updated 13.1 Tumbleweed, is overcrowded with default kernels as shown below with "rpm -qa kernel-\*"
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What went wrong? Why is " systemctl start purge-kernels.service" notworking?
It quite clearly says it in status output - because to actually make it do anything file /boot/do_purge_kernels must be created first. This file is created by kernel RPM.
You lost me there. As far as I remeber this command should be followed by a reboot in order to work. What should I do in order to build /boot/do_purge_kernels ?
touch /boot/do_purge_kernels systemctl start purge-kernels
Post output of "systemctl status purge-kernels" after that.
#systemctl status purge-kernels -l purge-kernels.service - Purge old kernels Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/purge-kernels.service; enabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Sat 2014-02-15 17:14:34 WIB; 13s ago Process: 9662 ExecStart=/sbin/purge-kernels (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 9661 ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f /boot/do_purge_kernels (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 9662 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CGroup: /system.slice/purge-kernels.service Feb 15 17:14:34 dhcppc2 purge-kernels[9662]: /sbin/purge-kernels: Running kernel 3.13.2-14.gb59b809-i586/default not installed. Feb 15 17:14:34 dhcppc2 purge-kernels[9662]: /sbin/purge-kernels: Nothing to do. Feb 15 17:14:34 dhcppc2 purge-kernels[9662]: NOT removing any packages for flavor i586/default. Feb 15 17:14:34 dhcppc2 systemd[1]: Started Purge old kernels. #rpm -qa kernel-default\* kernel-default-3.13.2-14.2.gb59b809.i586 kernel-default-3.13.1-12.1.gfc9498b.i586 kernel-default-3.11.6-4.1.i586 kernel-default-3.13.2-13.2.g97cc2ff.i586 kernel-default-3.13.2-13.1.g97cc2ff.i586 kernel-default-3.13.1-11.1.g5531b68.i586 kernel-default-3.13.2-14.1.gb59b809.i586 Could of course start eliminating kernels with Yast or with or with "rpm -e" but only as the last resort. -- Linux User 183145 using KDE4 and LXDE on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 13.1 (i586) Kernel: 3.13.2-14.gb59b809-default KDE Development Platform: 4.12.2 17:03pm up 2:49, 3 users, load average: 0.65, 0.96, 1.02 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org