On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:11:55PM +0530, Siju George wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One of the sarge machines runs and older kernel and "apt-get
> dist-upgrade" does not install the newer kernel.
>
> Could some one please help me trouble shoot this?
> debian:~# uname -a
> Linux debian 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 #1 Sat Jul 1 12:02:45 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> debian:~# apt-get update
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> debian:~#
>
> where as the newer Sarge kernel is
>
> Linux debian 2.6.8-13-amd64-k8 #1 Sat Jun 9 16:52:03 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
What kernel packages do you have installed? If you don't have a
kernel-metapackage that always depends on the newest kernel, then you
won't get the newer kernel.
Look at what packages depend on the newer kernel. At least one will be
a kernel meta-package. Install the one that always depends on the
newest kernel.
For example, on my Etch box, I have:
linux-image-amd64, which depends on:
linux-image-2.6-amd64, which depends on:
linux-image-2.6.18.5-amd64
This will mean that I will always have the most recent kernel
automatically selected, even if it jumps to linux-image-2.8.
Doug.
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