How do I properly clean out a rogue kernel and/or modules?

[andreas85]

@Daniel-I

Will the system eventually take care of the .old folder (and it’s contents), or is there another manual command that will do it?

You kann safely remove /lib/modules/.old and everything inside,
when this is not the kernel you are running at the moment !

But you do not need to do this, because this will happen automatically in a few days through kernel-modules-hook

Please use kernel-modules-hook instead of kernel-alive!

I have read and analyzed the source of both packages kernel-alive: 10 files in total The scripts are well commented and easy to read /lib/modules/.old is used as a file the modules are deleted at the first boot after the update protects only the running kernel (via uname -r) /usr/lib/modules/.old/* is erroneously deleted with a time delay (although it is not used at all) not robust because it depends on /lib/modules/.old and /lib/modules/backup/* to be in a certain …