Debian Bug report logs - #717584
/boot/initrd.img-*.old-dkms files left behind

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Package: dkms; Maintainer for dkms is Dynamic Kernel Modules Support Team <pkg-dkms-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>; Source for dkms is src:dkms (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: jidanni@jidanni.org

Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version dkms/2.2.0.3-1.2

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Dynamic Kernel Modules Support Team <pkg-dkms-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#717584; Package dkms. (Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:00:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to jidanni@jidanni.org:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Dynamic Kernel Modules Support Team <pkg-dkms-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:00:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: jidanni@jidanni.org
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: /boot/initrd.img-*.old-dkms files left behind
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 01:58:33 +0800
Package: dkms
Version: 2.2.0.3-1.2

One notices *.old-dkms files being left behind still sitting on the disk after purging the related kernel.
  /boot:
  drwxr-xr-x  5 root    12288 07-23 00:34 grub
  drwxr-xr-x  3 root     4096 07-23 00:34 .
  -rw-r--r--  1 root 14576851 07-22 06:21 initrd.img-3.10-1-686-pae
  drwxr-xr-x 22 root     4096 07-20 19:33 ..
  -rw-r--r--  1 root  1860013 07-16 21:19 System.map-3.10-1-686-pae
  -rw-r--r--  1 root   151212 07-16 21:19 config-3.10-1-686-pae
  -rw-r--r--  1 root  2352336 07-16 21:17 vmlinuz-3.10-1-686-pae
  -rw-r--r--  1 root 14385159 07-16 00:23 initrd.img-3.9-1-686-pae
  -rw-r--r--  1 root  1818498 06-30 13:49 System.map-3.9-1-686-pae
  -rw-r--r--  1 root   149996 06-30 13:49 config-3.9-1-686-pae
  -rw-r--r--  1 root  2312816 06-30 13:46 vmlinuz-3.9-1-686-pae
  -rw-r--r--  1 root 14778358 06-08 07:43 initrd.img-3.9-1-686-pae.old-dkms
  -rw-r--r--  1 root 14572561 06-08 07:42 initrd.img-3.8-2-686-pae.old-dkms
  -rw-r--r--  1 root 14574327 06-08 07:42 initrd.img-3.8-1-686-pae.old-dkms
  -rw-r--r--  1 root 14752229 05-11 02:28 initrd.img-3.2.0-4-686-pae.old-dkms

Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Dynamic Kernel Modules Support Team <pkg-dkms-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#717584; Package dkms. (Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:03:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to "Robert Dunigan, jr" <frail.knight@gmail.com>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Dynamic Kernel Modules Support Team <pkg-dkms-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:03:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #10 received at 717584@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Robert Dunigan, jr" <frail.knight@gmail.com>
To: 717584@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Upstream fix
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:59:13 -0500
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FYI, there's been a fix merged upstream with dkms:

https://github.com/dell/dkms/issues/2

https://github.com/dell/dkms/commit/4d29e7e03871b3b82ac7955ff4e6a024b0c434d3

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