On 21-05-17, 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#
>
> 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.
> 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.
>
> 2. I don't understand any implications of:
> The following packages have been kept back:
> linux-image-686-pae xorg xserver-xorg
>
> TIA
>
>
>
>
As for number 1 can't say much about it, I do not get it either. But 2
happens because you've used apt-get upgrade instead of apt-get
dist-upgrade. Packages that will uninstall some packages already
installed on your system and that will change some dependencies
require dist-upgrade. It happens always in case of linux-image packages.
It will leave your previous working linux-image on though, but will
uninstall one older than that, so you will always end up with chance to
boot in working kernel, if new one messes up some things.
