Yesterday the kernel was upgraded to 4.19.0-4 (4.19.28-2) and the
problem disappeared.
Miguel, thanks for the heads-up! Kernel 4.19.0-4 (4.19.28-2) does seem to work okay.
However, I must note that if I hadn't seen the post from Miguel I would not have known that the new kernel version was there. I was actually thinking it would be 4.19.0-5 (4.19.28-2), or even 5.0.2-1.
Updating as normal didn't let me know:
doofus@doofus:~$ sudo aptitude -Pvvv update
Current status: 0 (+0) broken, 0 (+0) upgradable, 58940 (+0) new.
(Perhaps because I did:
sudo aptitude purge linux-image-4.19.0-4-amd64
as soon as I saw the original problem?)
As of now, I still get:
doofus@doofus:~$ sudo aptitude search linux-image
i A linux-image-4.19.0-2-amd64 - Linux 4.19 for 64-bit PCs (signed)
i A linux-image-4.19.0-3-amd64 - Linux 4.19 for 64-bit PCs (signed)
i linux-image-4.19.0-4-amd64 - Linux 4.19 for 64-bit PCs (signed)
p linux-image-4.19.0-4-amd64-dbg - Debug symbols for linux-image-4.19.0-4-amd64
p linux-image-4.19.0-4-amd64-unsigned - Linux 4.19 for 64-bit PCs
p linux-image-4.19.0-4-cloud-amd64 - Linux 4.19 for x86-64 cloud (signed)
p linux-image-4.19.0-4-cloud-amd64-dbg - Debug symbols for linux-image-4.19.0-4-cloud-amd64
p linux-image-4.19.0-4-cloud-amd64-unsigned - Linux 4.19 for x86-64 cloud
p linux-image-4.19.0-4-rt-amd64 - Linux 4.19 for 64-bit PCs, PREEMPT_RT (signed)
p linux-image-4.19.0-4-rt-amd64-dbg - Debug symbols for linux-image-4.19.0-4-rt-amd64
p linux-image-4.19.0-4-rt-amd64-unsigned - Linux 4.19 for 64-bit PCs, PREEMPT_RT
p linux-image-amd64 - Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
p linux-image-amd64-dbg - Debugging symbols for Linux amd64 configuration (meta-
p linux-image-amd64-signed-template - Template for signed linux-image packages for amd64
p linux-image-cloud-amd64 - Linux for x86-64 cloud (meta-package)
p linux-image-cloud-amd64-dbg - Debugging symbols for Linux cloud-amd64 configuration
p linux-image-rt-amd64 - Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package), PREEMPT_RT
p linux-image-rt-amd64-dbg - Debugging symbols for Linux rt-amd64 configuration (me
And:
doofus@doofus:~$ sudo aptitude search linux-image-4.19.0-4-amd64
i linux-image-4.19.0-4-amd64 - Linux 4.19 for 64-bit PCs (signed)
p linux-image-4.19.0-4-amd64-dbg - Debug symbols for linux-image-4.19.0-4-amd64
p linux-image-4.19.0-4-amd64-unsigned - Linux 4.19 for 64-bit PCs
It might have been better to name the new version 4.19.0-5?
But, checking further, synaptic did show 4.19.28-2 (upstream version number?) if you look closely. And The Debian packages page shows the new version also.
So, I think it would really be nice if the apt system would be more helpful in situations like this.
End of complaint.