Re: virtual text consoles gone

[Andrew Reid <reidac@bellatlantic.net>]

On Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:25, Hendrik Boom wrote:

>
> I have been upgrading.  Could it be that three revisions of kernels have
> passed me by unnoticed without a reboot?  (I check /boot).  Nope.  Better
> investigate why I'm not getting the upgrades.

  If you have both linux-image-2.6-<arch> and 
linux-image-2.6.18-<version>-<arch> on your machine, then 
the usual "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" won't do the kernel upgrade,
it will instead "hold" the linux-image-2.6-<arch> package, because
of the dependency coupling -- linux-image-2.6.18-<version>-<arch>
is a dependency of linux-image-2.6-<arch>.

  This is a very handy feature for those of us with custom 
modules in the kernel, it allows us to do the regular
apt-get two-step without blitzing the kernel, so we can defer
the kernel upgrade until after we've re-read the module 
installation instructions.

  To do the upgrade, you can explicitly "install" the 
latest version, or do "apt-get dist-upgrade", which takes a 
more aggressive approach to dependencies.

  I have no idea how aptitude handles this. 

				-- A.
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Andrew Reid / reidac@bellatlantic.net