get up, clean up, don’t give up the files (and the termites)
As I was trying early July to upgrade my current version of Ubuntu (after a year of procrastination) to 24.04 (Noble Numbat!), I found there was no enough space on the partition element where the upgrade was to take place. I thus started removing superfluous applications, until removing a clock induced a massive removal of attached files and required reinstalling the missing theme to log in…
1924 sudo apt-get autoremove 1926 sudo apt-get autoclean 1929 sudo du -d 1 -h 1932 shutdown -r now 1934 apt-get install sddm-theme-breeze 1935 sudo apt-get install sddm-theme-breeze 1936 sudo apt-get install --reinstall plasma-desktop 1941 logout 1943 sudo apt list --installed | grep -i linux-image 1946 sudo du -h /var/lib/snapd/snaps 1947 sudo journalctl --disk-usage 1957 sudo apt remove linux-image-5.4.0-97-generic 1961 sudo apt remove linux-image-5.4.0-71-generic
I then realised older versions of the Linux kernel were store on that space and eating most of that precious space (as numbats are eating termites) and removed most of these versions with no visible damage. The same issue (of the missing breeze theme preventing regular login) occurred once again at the upgrade stage, with the same patch.
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