Richard Owlett wrote: > I had done: > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade > The tail end of the output was: > ... > Setting up libkde3support4 (4:4.14.26-2) ... > Setting up libktexteditor4 (4:4.14.26-2) ... > Setting up libkdewebkit5 (4:4.14.26-2) ... > Setting up libkhtml5 (4:4.14.26-2) ... > Setting up libplasma3 (4:4.14.26-2) ... > Setting up kdelibs5-plugins (4:4.14.26-2) ... > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130) ... > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-2-686-pae > I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda5 > I: (UUID=5d0c821b-26b2-4d38-b7fe-dc7db1b72576) > I: Set the RESUME variable to override this. > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-10) ... > root@stretch-2nd:/home/richard#
last bit is new message from initramfs upgrade. i edited my /etc/default/grub file to make sure there is no resume going on at all by changing the line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="root=LABEL=ROOT_00 noresume" your own line may look different. :) > Before asking for confirmation to do the "upgrade" it said 3 packages > would not be upgraded. > If it said which packages, I didn't spot it. you'd need dist-upgrade to grab the new kernel version that is all that is about. > I then reran with following result. > > root@stretch-2nd:/home/richard# apt-get upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Calculating upgrade... Done > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: > dconf-cli gir1.2-notify-0.7 libconfig9 libgtkspell3-3-0 > libindicator3-7 mate-indicator-applet > mate-indicator-applet-common python3-psutil python3-setproctitle > Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. > The following packages have been kept back: > linux-image-686-pae xorg xserver-xorg > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. > root@stretch-2nd:/home/richard# > > My questions: > > 1. In the first run, I don't understand: > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130) ... > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-2-686-pae > I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda5 > I: (UUID=5d0c821b-26b2-4d38-b7fe-dc7db1b72576) > I: Set the RESUME variable to override this. > As /dev/sda5 is my SWAP. 'splained above... > 2. I don't understand any implications of: > The following packages have been kept back: > linux-image-686-pae xorg xserver-xorg the difference between apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade. covered by the man page. songbird
