From: Doug@hyperspace.vogon.gov   
      
   Tristan Miller wrote:   
   > Greetings.   
   >   
   > Occasionally when I boot my machine, the system pauses for a minute or   
   > two with the message, "A start job is running for Purge old kernels".   
   >   
   > If I understand correctly, purging old kernels simply means uninstalling   
   > them.  If this is the case, why is this something that boot has to block   
   > for?  I mean, once the system is up an running, I can always use zypper   
   > or rpm to manually remove old kernels.  So it's obviously something that   
   > *can* be done without interfering with my use of the machine.  I get why   
   > the bootup script might want to clean up old kernels every once in a   
   > while, but why can't it just launch a process that does this   
   > unobtrusively in the background?   
   >   
   > Regards,   
   > Tristan   
   >   
      
   I think you'll find that the function runs the next time you boot after   
   a kernel update, but I was wondering exactly the same thing yesterday   
   evening.  A new kernel was installed, I rebooted and then watched the   
   system taking a timeout while removing the (-2) kernel.   
      
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