On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:06:48 +0000, Maurice Batey wrote:
> Just updated kernel to 2.6.22.18-desktop-1mdv.
>
> To remove earlier versions, is it simply a question of deleting
> the appropriate folder in /lib/modules/ (and adjusting menu.lst)?

I use the Mandriva Control Center Software Management add/remove software.

> (Thinking of deleting 2.6.22.9 but hanging on to 2.6.22.12 in
> case need to backtrack from 2.6.22.18.)

I had to delete my x.x.x.12 kernel source. Seems dkms was not compiling on boot
because of some conflicting value. I removed all but x.x.x.18 and dkms
compiled on next boot.

Bit Twister wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:06:48 +0000, Maurice Batey wrote:
>> Just updated kernel to 2.6.22.18-desktop-1mdv.
>>
>> To remove earlier versions, is it simply a question of deleting
>> the appropriate folder in /lib/modules/ (and adjusting menu.lst)?
>
> I use the Mandriva Control Center Software Management add/remove software.
>
>> (Thinking of deleting 2.6.22.9 but hanging on to 2.6.22.12 in
>> case need to backtrack from 2.6.22.18.)
>
> I had to delete my x.x.x.12 kernel source. Seems dkms was not compiling on boot
> because of some conflicting value. I removed all but x.x.x.18 and dkms
> compiled on next boot.

Using mcc or urpme to remove packages is the best way to go, but I
have had even that leave things lying around that could cause
problems and at at miminum take up disk space.

Look under /lib/modules to see if you have anything left over
from an earlier but no longer existing kernel. Check /usr/src
for same. Then look in /boot to see if anything there is no
longer needed. Then, if you use grub, into /boot/grub and look
at the contents of menu.lst. If there are extra stanzas for old
kernels, make a backup copy and then edit and clean up menu.lst.

Then, for a final check (plus some false hits) first updatedb to
get locate up to current status, and then locate 2.6.22.18 or
whatever your numbers are for a kernel that should be gone.
Be careful about deleting. Not only can you get false hits on
non-kernel packages if the numbers are right, you may have had
more than one kernel for that set of numbers and still have
one or more of them on the system.

Cheers!

jim b.

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On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:06:48 -0500, Maurice Batey wrote:

> To remove earlier versions, is it simply a question of deleting
> the appropriate folder in /lib/modules/ (and adjusting menu.lst)?

Use rpm -e, or urpme to remove the old kernel, kernel-devel, kernel-source,
packages. If you have /etc/cron.daily/rpm running, then you can just use
grep kernel /var/log/rpmpkgs, to see which packages you have installed. Then
delete the appropriate sub-directories and remaining contents from /usr/src,
/lib/modules, and /var/lib/dkms.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:47:47 +0000, Bit Twister wrote:

> I use the Mandriva Control Center Software Management add/remove software.

Thanks, BT - I decided to go that way, too...

(Removed 22.9; its top folder is still in /lib/modules, but
all its subdirectories have gone.)

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