[nmglug] Linux kernel 3.0

Rob Haag rhaag71 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 22:24:52 PST 2012


So...I just did an update (I prefer to do it by command line, it's just
faster for me)...anyhow, this came up and I thought I'd share it since it
is so pertinent to what we have been discussing here :) It's a copy/paste
of what was in my terminal, not totally complete buy you will get the
idea... (I happened to be in my apache2 directory, just ignore that at the
prompt), but you will see that I used 'apt-get upgrade' and noticed that
there were packages being kept back, so I said 'n' to upgrade, went back
with a 'dist-upgrade' to satify everything...

rob at albert3 /etc/apache2/sites-available $ sudo apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   ifupdown libnux-1.0-0 libnux-1.0-common libunity-core-4.0-4 nux-tools
> unity-services update-notifier-common
> 7 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
> Need to get 1,376 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
> Abort.
> rob at albert3 /etc/apache2/sites-available $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   linux-headers-3.0.0-15 linux-headers-3.0.0-15-generic
> linux-image-3.0.0-15-generic
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   ifupdown libnux-1.0-0 libnux-1.0-common libunity-core-4.0-4
> linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic nux-tools
> unity-services update-notifier-common
> 10 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 50.4 MB of archives.
> After this operation, 251 MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
> Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main
> linux-image-3.0.0-15-generic amd64 3.0.0-15.26 [37.0 MB]
> Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main ifupdown
> amd64 0.7~alpha5.1ubuntu5.1 [47.7 kB]
>
>
> Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main libnux-1.0-0
> amd64 1.16.0-0ubuntu1.1 [1,047 kB]
>
>
> Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main
> libnux-1.0-common all 1.16.0-0ubuntu1.1 [64.0 kB]
>
>
> Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main
> libunity-core-4.0-4 amd64 4.28.0-0ubuntu2 [168 kB]
>
>
> Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main
> unity-services amd64 4.28.0-0ubuntu2 [27.9 kB]
>
>
> Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main
> linux-generic amd64 3.0.0.15.17 [1,712 B]
>
>
> Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main
> linux-image-generic amd64 3.0.0.15.17 [2,454 B]
>
>
> Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main
> linux-headers-3.0.0-15 all 3.0.0-15.26 [11.2 MB]
>
>
> Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main
> linux-headers-3.0.0-15-generic amd64 3.0.0-15.26 [858 kB]
>
>
> Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main
> linux-headers-generic amd64 3.0.0.15.17 [2,446 B]
>
>
> Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main nux-tools
> amd64 1.16.0-0ubuntu1.1 [10.7 kB]
>
>
> Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main
> update-notifier-common all 0.117ubuntu3.2 [10.6 kB]
>
>
> Fetched 50.4 MB in 29s (1,720 kB/s)
>
>
>
> Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-3.0.0-15-generic.
> (Reading database ... 210127 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking linux-image-3.0.0-15-generic (from
> .../linux-image-3.0.0-15-generic_3.0.0-15.26_amd64.deb) ...
> Done.

... and went on to do the operation...

Rob

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Rob Haag <rhaag71 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I vote you do the apt-get dist-upgrade ...it's not really a big deal,
> having safety is good  though. I do it now and again just so I don't have
> to see apt-get complain about held packages (when there are some).
>
> Rob
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 7:38 PM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com>wrote:
>
>> **
>> Well that helps me feel better that the 3.0 is no great shakes and I
>> would assume that it will all get upgraded eventually anyway.
>> So is the consensus that I should do the apt-get dist-upgrade? Sounds
>> like it but just making sure. I plan to clone my drive to a larger one
>> anyway and then I can do the upgrade on this HD and risk nothing really.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 01/28/2012 09:02 PM, kevinlowrie wrote:
>>
>> The best article I found on 3.0 was in LinuxJournal last October/November for those with a subscription.
>>
>> A quick search on google to find non-subscription based articles came up with this one from PCMAG.com http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388926,00.asp
>>
>> that sums it up best in the title for the impatient.
>>
>> For the even more impatient, 3.0 came out 15 years after the 2.0 version released and Linus felt it was time... don't expect anything snazzier than you would from 2.6.39 to 2.6.40... it's the same upgrade (no 2.6.40 to be released...)
>>
>> Another good summation of the versions here.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel
>>
>> And for the really curious. Here is the 7/21/2011 post from Linus releasing it with his words.https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/21/455
>>
>>
>> cheers and happy haxin9!
>> kevinlowriekevinlowrie at gmail.com
>>
>> The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law...
>> A.Einstein
>>
>> On Jan 23, 2012, at 11:52 , Mark Galassi wrote:
>>
>>
>>    BrianO'Keefe> Hi all, I'm finding lots of "how-tos" on the web to
>>    BrianO'Keefe> install the 3.0 kernel. Is this advisable as i am
>>    BrianO'Keefe> running Ubuntu 10.10?
>>
>> In general I would stick to the kernel updates from your distribution
>> unless you are doing very special things.
>>
>> Note that it might be a bad idea to run 10.10 for so long: 10.10 is not
>> a "long term support" release, so it's probably best to keep it current.
>>
>> See this page for a description of the LTS releases and expiration in
>> general.
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
>>
>> Vis-a-vis your updates, sometimes an explicit deliberate install of one
>> or two might then make apt-get install them all:
>>
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get -u install linux-image-generic
>>
>> and see if that changes things.
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