From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2022-04-14 13:11, 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?   
      
   AFAIK, it doesn't block here, other things continue running, even the   
   boot sequence. I can not check this instant, but I think I can login   
   while the job is running. I should be able to verify this tomorrow.   
      
   You do not say what release you are using.   
      
      
   The job simply calls on zypper to delete the oldest kernel after an update.   
      
   You can verify what it does by running:   
      
   systemctl cat purge-kernels.service   
      
      
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