Rob Hurle composed on 2018-01-07 13:58 (UTC+1100): > I'm running Stretch and yesterday I did my normal:
> sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get upgrade > It seemed to install vmlinuz-4.9.0-5-686-pae (and associated config and > image files, etc) in place of 4.9.0-4-686-pae versions. Now the system > won't boot at all. I have reverted to 4.9.0-4-686-pae and all is well. My > questions are: > 1. Does anyone else see this? > 2. How can I revert without losing my working 4.9.0-4-686-pae system? Can > I just change the soft links for initrd.img and vmlinuz at / to point to > the 4.9.0-4-686-pae versions instead of the 4.9.0-5-686-pae ones? Will > this break something else for a future upgrade? > Any help much appreciated. Thank you. Here's a portion of /boot/ on one I just updated minutes ago: lrwxrwxrwx 1 26 Jan 9 17:47 initrd -> initrd.img-4.9.0-5-686-pae lrwxrwxrwx 1 26 Jan 9 17:47 initrd-cur -> initrd.img-4.9.0-5-686-pae -rw-r--r-- 1 17388979 Jan 9 17:45 initrd.img-4.9.0-4-686-pae -rw-r--r-- 1 17067283 Oct 21 03:00 .initrd.img-4.9.0-4-686-pae1 -rw-r--r-- 1 17388194 Oct 21 04:51 .initrd.img-4.9.0-4-686-pae2 -rw-r--r-- 1 17388979 Jan 9 17:45 .initrd.img-4.9.0-4-686-pae3 -rw-r--r-- 1 17392772 Jan 9 17:44 initrd.img-4.9.0-5-686-pae -rw-r--r-- 1 17392772 Jan 9 17:44 .initrd.img-4.9.0-5-686-pae1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 26 Oct 21 03:18 initrd-prv -> initrd.img-4.9.0-4-686-pae lrwxrwxrwx 1 23 Jan 9 17:47 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-4.9.0-5-686-pae -rw-r--r-- 1 3643920 Dec 22 19:39 vmlinuz-4.9.0-4-686-pae -rw-r--r-- 1 3645296 Jan 4 06:12 vmlinuz-4.9.0-5-686-pae lrwxrwxrwx 1 23 Jan 9 17:46 vmlinuz-cur -> vmlinuz-4.9.0-5-686-pae lrwxrwxrwx 1 23 Oct 21 03:18 vmlinuz-prv -> vmlinuz-4.9.0-4-686-pae Note the additional symlinks, and the in-place initrd backups. If what happened to you happened to me, and I was unable to rebuild the 4.9.0.5 initrd or anything else to solve the problem, I would purge the 4.9.0.5 kernel, delete the -cur symlinks, and copy the -prv symlinks back to vmlinuz and initrd. If and when an update brings a 4.9.0.6 or newer kernel, the 4.9.0.4 would be retained, as 4.9.0.5 would have if it hadn't been purged. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
