On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 17:51 -0400, Snood wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: > >Sam wrote:
> >First of all, you replied to me personally instead of to the list. > >I'm putting this back on the list where it belongs. Same happened here. > >If you have already done the upgrade, you should have two kernel > >image packages installed: linux-image-2.6.32-3-<arch> and > >linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-<arch>. If you wish to purge the old > >kernel, shutdown and reboot first. This will cause the new kernel > >to be booted. Then you can purge the old one. aptitude will > >not let you purge or remove a running kernel. > I know about rebooting and purging. I've done it lots before. It's > not working that way in this case. Honestly. There's just no > evidence that I can find that there's more than one kernel to select > from. In fact, there's not even any evidence at all that there was > any kernel upgrade on the three machines that had the initial OS > installation done with the trunk kernel install option. On the other > system, I can see that a new linux-image package was installed. But > there's only one choice of kernels at boot time. And any attempt on > any of these systems to remove the "obsolete" kernel results in the > warning that the only kernel is being removed. It would be great, if you could provide us with the output of the following commands: # aptitude search ~i~n^linux-image # apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6.32-3-686 It is quite likely that you have indeed two packages installed, namely linux-image-2.6.32-3-686 and linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686. The latter is no longer present in the archives and therefore obsolete. We can see that linux-image-2.6.32-3-686 is in testing: $ rmadison linux-image-2.6.32-3-686 linux-image-2.6.32-3-686 | 2.6.32-9 | testing | i386 linux-image-2.6.32-3-686 | 2.6.32-9 | unstable | i386 so you should have installed it. That assumes that you have a kernel meta-package installed, which depends on the current package that provides the newest kernel. That meta-package is probably linux-image-2.6-686. It has already been pointed out in this thread that this kernel update did, in contrast to previous updates, not select the kernel provided by linux-image-2.6.32-3-686 as default kernel for grub. I therefore think that the warning you get is not due to the fact that you have only one kernel installed, but rather that you are trying to remove the kernel *you are currently using*, because you booted into the "old" kernel. If you really have only one kernel package installed, I would suggest to install the aforementioned meta-package or linux-image-2.6.32-3-686, reboot and remove/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686. Please provide the complete output of any command that gives errors. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland <wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de> : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC
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