[gentoo-user] why my system is keeping old kernel around?

[gentoo-user] why my system is keeping old kernel around?

[Joseph]

When I run depclean, it prints out:

 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
    selected: 3.6.11 
   protected: none 
     omitted: 2.6.31-r6 2.6.36-r5 3.7.10-r1

ll /usr/src/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   19 Feb 26 12:35 linux -> linux-3.6.11-gentoo

The system is using kernel 3.6.11; so I'll keep it.
But why it tries to keep older kernels:  2.6.31-r6 2.6.36-r5 ?

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] why my system is keeping old kernel around?

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I run depclean, it prints out:
>
> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
>    selected: 3.6.11   protected: none     omitted: 2.6.31-r6 2.6.36-r5
> 3.7.10-r1
>
> ll /usr/src/
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   19 Feb 26 12:35 linux -> linux-3.6.11-gentoo
>
> The system is using kernel 3.6.11; so I'll keep it.
> But why it tries to keep older kernels:  2.6.31-r6 2.6.36-r5 ?

If you ran emerge --depclean, the older kernels are not there; only
the files created when you compiled them (*.o, *.ko, vmlinuz, stuff
like that).

You can rm -rf the old versions safely.

Regards.
--
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] why my system is keeping old kernel around?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:19:49 -0600, Joseph wrote:

>  sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
>     selected: 3.6.11 
>    protected: none 
>      omitted: 2.6.31-r6 2.6.36-r5 3.7.10-r1

Do you have them in your world file?

grep gentoo-sources /var/lib/portage/world

If not, "emerge -cpv gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6" will tell you why it is 
wanted.


-- 
Neil Bothwick
Never argue with an idiot. First, they bring you down to their level.
Then they beat you with experience.

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Re: [gentoo-user] why my system is keeping old kernel around?

[Randy Barlow]

On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 09:29 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Do you have them in your world file?

I've noticed a few time before that gentoo-sources occasionally ends up
in my world file with a specific version (rather than just being
unversioned, like most packages in world). This will cause depclean to
leave those versions installed.

I've never determined what I am doing that causes that to get there with
the specific version, but I've noticed it gets in there sometimes. I
just remove it from the file and continue, but perhaps one day I'll
figure out when (and why) it's getting in there in the first place.

-- 
Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] why my system is keeping old kernel around?

[Alan McKinnon]

On 28/04/2013 18:06, Randy Barlow wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 09:29 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> Do you have them in your world file?
> 
> I've noticed a few time before that gentoo-sources occasionally ends up
> in my world file with a specific version (rather than just being
> unversioned, like most packages in world). This will cause depclean to
> leave those versions installed.
> 
> I've never determined what I am doing that causes that to get there with
> the specific version, but I've noticed it gets in there sometimes. I
> just remove it from the file and continue, but perhaps one day I'll
> figure out when (and why) it's getting in there in the first place.
> 

By far the most likely cause is you type

emerge =gentoo-sources-<something>

and forget to use the -1 option. It's the same thing that results in
packages called *lib* in world



-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] why my system is keeping old kernel around?

[Randy Barlow]

On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 18:47 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> By far the most likely cause is you type
> 
> emerge =gentoo-sources-<something>
> 
> and forget to use the -1 option. It's the same thing that results in
> packages called *lib* in world

Yeah, I knew that doing this would cause what I was talking about, but I
don't recall ever having using a specific version in a kernel emerge
command. I guess it's possible I just don't remember doing it, but it
happens often enough that I don't think this is why.

I'll try to pay attention to the contents of world and see if I can
pinpoint an action that is doing this. Thanks!

-- 
Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] why my system is keeping old kernel around?

[Alan McKinnon]

On 28/04/2013 03:19, Joseph wrote:
> When I run depclean, it prints out:
> 
> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
>    selected: 3.6.11   protected: none     omitted: 2.6.31-r6 2.6.36-r5
> 3.7.10-r1
> 
> ll /usr/src/
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   19 Feb 26 12:35 linux -> linux-3.6.11-gentoo
> 
> The system is using kernel 3.6.11; so I'll keep it.
> But why it tries to keep older kernels:  2.6.31-r6 2.6.36-r5 ?


Those kernels are in world. Check the contents of /var/lib/portage/world.

You deleted /usr/src/<stuff>, that doesn't change in any way what
portage think you have installed, only --depclean or emerge -C does that

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com