Hello !
Sorry if this is obvious but I’ve been searching through the wiki(s) and man pages and don’t see my answer. I built 2 kernels via the kernel manager, one rc6.13 and one rc6.13 but with modprobed-db.
I want to uninstall them and 'cause they don’t appear in the kernel manager I didn’t go this route.
Instead, I tried to use the kernel-install package (I don’t wan’t to delete random files on my own, good way to break smth) and tried multiple times to uninstall with
sudo kernel-install remove 6.13.0-rc1-1 (and other variants, I tried all I could think of)
I don’t really know what I can do more, feel free to point me to resources that could help me understand more, as I’m here on arch and arch based distros primarily to learn.
Yeah I tried but as I said the ones that I built myself are not showing on there so I don’t know, is there a way to make them appear ? Or another page on the manager ?
It prompts me to delete the kernel and headers but I was worried that it wasn’t all that was installed by compiling it and I was leaving so files behind
Nope I’m on AMD. And also I forgot to precise but after trying to run the commands with kernel-installed I updated grub to see if it would change smth, and I did several reboots trying to switch kernels to see if it would show up.
So okay I’ll do this with pacman !
Just to know, do you have any idea why kernel-install package wouldn’t work ? Was I running it wrong ?
And also is it expected behavior for the kernel manager to not show the kernels built by the user, even with said manager ?
Also quick follow-up as I’m now trying to remove my custom kernel with custom name, do you know what the dbg stands for ? And why it’s here and wasn’t there on the rc that wasn’t moded ?
Yup read that but it wasn’t really helping me for my issue
Maybe this note is saying that it doesn’t support displaying and managing custom built kernel, even through the manager ?
I have issues with the kernels after the lts I’m using (even though I still have some in lts it’s less). But I wanted to cleanup to be able to redo my kernel when 6.13 stbale comes out and to not bloat my grub
Yup I have backups and not really any important file anyway so it’s okay. And I’m used to things breaking as I spent my first year on linux with arch lmao.
I tested to delete custom-mod-dbg and headers and ran grub mkconfig, it still found the image for the custom-mod kernel so ig I missed the package but I don’t know what it’s called as I tested pacman -Rns custom-mod and it didn’t find it
I really don’t know how to uninstall it, or more specifically what the name of the package is.
As you can see the rc6.13 that I managed to uninstall via pacman isn’t there anymore but custo-mod persists
Did you check if you really uninstalled the packages of your custom kernel?
Try this:
pacman -Qq | grep 'custom-mod'
It searches a little different:
pacman
-Q: query/list locally installed packages
-q: only the package name, no description, etc.
grep: from all of this just keep the lines with ‘custom-mod’ in it
It’s a bit more robust because there is no logic on package names involved but it just filters on plain strings.
I wonder why the kernel has no prefix like linux-, that’s unusual and could lead to problems when other tools or scripts assume kernel images to start with that prefix.
