Safest way to clean up boot partition - Ubuntu 14.04LTS-x64, Ubuntu 16.04LTS-x64 Reference Case I: if /boot is not 100% full and apt is working 1. Check the current kernel version $ uname -r
Using strace and lsof to debug blocked processes You can use strace on a specific pid to figure out what a specific process is doing, e.g.: strace -fp <pid> You might see something like: select(9, [3 5 8], [], [], {0, 999999}) = 0 (Timeout)