From: hyperspace.flyover@vogon.gov.invalid   
      
   Andrew wrote:   
   > 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   
   >>   
   >   
   > Having just updated a kernel on a Leap 15.4 machine, the system still   
   >  waits for the purge to complete.   
   >   
   > The purge of the old kernels runs in parallel to the setup of my   
   > "wicked managed network interfaces".  On a system with SSD discs the   
   > purge takes only slightly longer than the wicked setup.  On my older   
   > system the purge takes well over a minute, I'd guess at 80 seconds.   
   >   
   > The older system has another problem anyway, my /boot partition is   
   > over 500MB and has around 50% free with the current kernel and the -1   
   > kernel. This is insufficient when it comes to installing a new kernel   
   > and I'm going to have to start getting rid of the -1 kernel before   
   > installing the new one.  The beast is dual-boot with Windows 10 and I   
   > am not prepared to risk moving the main Windows partion which is just   
   > behind /boot.   
      
   An update has come out which fixes the problem.   
   purge-kernels-service-0-150200.8.6.1.noarch   
      
   It turns out the behaviour was deliberate, YaST -> Software Management   
   -> [search for "purge"], and then look at "Change Log".  The entry for   
   06 May 2021.   
      
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