Update detects leftovers from removed kernel

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Each time I update I see an error/warning that says something similar to:

“specified kernel not found vmlinuz6.0…”

However 6.0 is not even installed, and was removed quite a length ago.

I am currently running 6.14.0_rt3-2
and have the previous 1 kernel left installed for emergency purposes which is 6.13_rt5_4

I think perhaps it is detecting something leftover from a previously removed kernel, that should have been removed when the kernel was removed. (just a guess)

So far this error has not produced any negative results, other than displaying this error/warning each update.

Is there a way to rectify this? Should I even worry about it?

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What is the output from

ls /etc/mkinitcpio.d
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linux515.preset.pacsave     linux519-rt.preset.pacsave  linux613-rt.preset  linux61.preset.pacsave     linux67-rt.preset.pacsave
linux515-rt.preset.pacsave  linux60-rt.preset           linux614-rt.preset  linux64-rt.preset.pacsave
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With a confidence level of about 85%, I would recommend

sudo mv linux60-rt.preset{,.pacsave}

I believe that it should have been done automatically when linux60-rt was removed, but for whatever reason…

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Should I rename the files for all the but current and previous kernels? I see a lot of other old ones in there also.

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All of the other old ones already have .pacsave appended to them, do they not?

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Yes, they do. These files are no longer required, correct?
So I would like to delete them after assuring they are not needed, and being able to boot. Is there any reason to keep them? What I did was tar.gz them all for backup and remove all but the current and previous. Have not reboot yet. Does this seem sound?

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See Yochanan’s advice from a few years back:

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Reboot successful.
I won’t know for sure if the error/warning message is gone until next update.
Thank you!

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Make a sudo mkinitcpio -P and you will see.

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