Re: Upgrading Kernel on VPS - Failed?

[Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>]

On 22/02/15 03:14 PM, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have a VPS with a company. The image I initially chose was Debian
> Wheezy. I immediately upgraded to Jessie. I updated the kernel and
> rebooted. However, it seems I can't use iptables:
>
> $ sudo iptables --list
> modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:557 kmod_search_moddep() could
> not open moddep file '/lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/modules.dep.bin'
>
> iptables v1.4.21: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Table does
> not exist (do you need to insmod?)
> Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
>
> 3.2.0-4-amd64 is from Wheezy. It seems that the system is still looking
> for the previous kernel. Does anyone have information about this?
>
> Thanks!

Don't know if this will help or not, but if you are getting to a command 
prompt, you can try to reinstall the new kernel. Uninstalling the old 
one might be necessary.

The other option, since you said you immediately upgraded, is to create 
a new one directly from Jessie.