Re: debian stable kernel not updating on one machine

2021-02-03 Thread D. R. Evans
Andy Smith wrote on 2/2/21 6:33 PM: Perhaps you do not have the virtual package "linux-image-amd64" for some reason. That package depends upon the latest actual kernel package, so causes you to see upgrades. That's it. Somehow both linux-image-amd64 and the linux-headers-amd64 were no longe

Re: debian stable kernel not updating on one machine

2021-02-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 04:13:36PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: > I see that synaptic lists 4.19.0-14-amd64 as being available in > the repository; and, indeed, on another machine I updated earlier > in the day the kernel was updated from -13 to -14. > > How might I be able to diagnose why the f

Re: debian stable kernel not updating on one machine

2021-02-02 Thread Jeremy Andrews
Possibly a dependency conflict of some kind. Maybe try updating from the terminal to see if it works or at least gives a useful error message sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt full-upgrade You could also check the contents of the /boot directory to see if the kernel is actually there

debian stable kernel not updating on one machine

2021-02-02 Thread D. R. Evans
I went to update one of my machines running debian stable today, using (as usual) synaptic [which I think is basically a wrapper for various apt functions]. The machine is running: [Z:~] uname -a Linux zserver 4.19.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.160-2 (2020-11-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux [Z:~]