Subject: checkrestart: please check for upgraded kernel image
Package: debian-goodies
Version: 0.47
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/sbin/checkrestart
It would be nice if checkrestart could also check to see if the running
kernel is different from the installed one. This is what I use now
(which can surely be improved):
# get the installed kernel version
kernfile=`readlink -e /vmlinuz || readlink -e /boot/vmlinuz`
kernel=`dpkg -S $kernfile | awk -F : '{print $1}'`
installed_version=`apt-cache policy $kernel | sed -n 's/^ *Installed: *//p'`
# get the running kernel version
running_version=`sed 's/^Linux version [^(]* (Debian \([^)]*\)) .*$/\1/'
/proc/version`
This obviously only works with Debian kernels and may have some
limitations but it works for me. It also handles the case where the
kernel was upgraded but the kernel version stays the same (e.g. uname -r
is the same for both the running and the new kernel).
Thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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ii less 418-1 Pager program similar to more
ii lsof 4.78.dfsg.1-4 List open files
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