Re: 25 kernels

W dniu 23.05.2025 o 11:06, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 pisze:

W dniu 17.05.2025 o 14:29, Chris Ahlstrom pisze:

So I do an update of Debian Sid, and it starts updating initrd images, and
continues, continues, continues.... 25 kernels from 6.10.11 to 6.12.27.
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Purged 22 of them. FTS. FFS.

 Personally, I always use oldest available kernel, and newer update it. List of kernels I can get with command:
 apt list | grep -P 'linux-image-\d+.*'
 In the case version 5.4.0-26 is oldest, I install it with command:
 sudo apt install $(apt list | grep 'linux-[^-]*-5.4.0-26-generic' | cut -d '/' -f1 | tr '\n' ' ')
 don't forget about X Window, which require following package to work:
 sudo apt install linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-26-generic
 Then I stop update kernel with command:
 sudo apt-mark hold linux-*

And of course: reboot with oldest kernel, and remove all rest of them.