If I were in that situation, I would allow it to continue, then do another apt-get update/upgrade combo and see what it says. If there were still held packages, I would then attempt the dist-upgrade (again) and see if it resolves the issues. You may have some held packages right now, until you go through with the upgrade.<div>
<br></div><div>If that did not work, then I'd open synaptic and look at some of the held packages and see if they were marked to be held (holding certain versions), and then (if it were me) and that didn't show anything I'd probably give the Curly (3 stooges) frustration moan at the computer, and attempt to re-install some of the kept packages. They may even at that point need re-configured.... But of course, this second paragraph is pure speculation, I'd give it a shot and see what comes, it don't look like it's going to hurt, you will end up with some upgraded packages including your kernal package. Then lets see some output again, some googling could very well get you past all this...<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:13 PM, BrianO'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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So I still get packages to be kept back and that is what I don't get
and apparently why Update Manager offers a partial upgrade:<br>
<br>
<br>
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade<br>
[sudo] password for ubuntu: <br><div class="im">
Reading package lists... Done<br>
Building dependency tree <br>
Reading state information... Done<br>
Calculating upgrade... Done<br></div><div class="im">
The following packages will be REMOVED:<br>
friendly-recovery plymouth-label plymouth-theme-kubuntu-logo<br>
plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo plymouth-theme-xubuntu-logo
plymouth-x11<br>
qgis-plugin-grass xchat<br></div><div class="im">
The following NEW packages will be installed:<br></div><div class="im">
apg libgtk-sharp-beans-cil liblaunchpad-integration-common
libmatecanvas<br>
libmatecomponent libmatekeyring libnotify-bin libpython2.7
libqgis1.7.3<br>
libtasn1-3-bin linux-headers-2.6.35-32
linux-headers-2.6.35-32-generic<br>
linux-image-2.6.35-32-generic mate-common mate-conf
mate-conf-common<br>
mate-corba mate-menus mate-mime-data python-corba
python-mate-desktop<br>
python-mate-menu python2.7 python2.7-minimal<br></div><div class="im">
The following packages have been kept back:<br></div><div class="im">
banshee banshee-extension-soundmenu gnome-control-center
grub-common grub-pc<br>
grub2 gtk2-engines-pixbuf launchpad-integration libboost-all-dev<br>
libgail-common libgail-dev libgail18 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin
libgtk2.0-dev<br></div><div class="im">
libical0 liblaunchpad-integration1.0-cil libplymouth2 libvmime0
mintmenu<br>
plymouth python-launchpad-integration python-software-properties<br></div>
software-properties-gtk software-properties-kde tomboy
usb-creator-common<br>
usb-creator-gtk usb-creator-kde yelp<div class="im"><br>
The following packages will be upgraded:<br></div><div class="im">
liblaunchpad-integration1 linux-generic linux-headers-generic<br>
linux-image-generic python-qgis python-qgis-common qgis
qgis-common<br>
qgis-plugin-grass-common qgis-providers qgis-providers-common
xchat-common<br></div>
12 upgraded, 24 newly installed, 8 to remove and 30 not upgraded.<br>
Need to get 74.7MB of archives.<br>
After this operation, 276MB of additional disk space will be used.<div class="im"><br>
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n<br>
Abort.<br>
<br>
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On 01/30/2012 11:24 PM, Rob Haag wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">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...
<div>
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rob@albert3 /etc/apache2/sites-available $ sudo apt-get
upgrade<br>
Reading package lists... Done<br>
Building dependency tree <br>
Reading state information... Done<br>
The following packages have been kept back:<br>
linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic<br>
The following packages will be upgraded:<br>
ifupdown libnux-1.0-0 libnux-1.0-common libunity-core-4.0-4
nux-tools unity-services update-notifier-common<br>
7 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.<br>
Need to get 1,376 kB of archives.<br>
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be
used.<br>
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n<br>
Abort.<br>
rob@albert3 /etc/apache2/sites-available $ sudo apt-get
dist-upgrade<br>
Reading package lists... Done<br>
Building dependency tree <br>
Reading state information... Done<br>
Calculating upgrade... Done<br>
The following NEW packages will be installed:<br>
linux-headers-3.0.0-15 linux-headers-3.0.0-15-generic
linux-image-3.0.0-15-generic<br>
The following packages will be upgraded:<br>
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<br>
10 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.<br>
Need to get 50.4 MB of archives.<br>
After this operation, 251 MB of additional disk space will be
used.<br>
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? <br>
Get:1 <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a>
oneiric-updates/main linux-image-3.0.0-15-generic amd64
3.0.0-15.26 [37.0 MB]<br>
Get:2 <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a>
oneiric-updates/main ifupdown amd64 0.7~alpha5.1ubuntu5.1
[47.7 kB]
<br>
Get:3 <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a>
oneiric-updates/main libnux-1.0-0 amd64 1.16.0-0ubuntu1.1
[1,047 kB]
<br>
Get:4 <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a>
oneiric-updates/main libnux-1.0-common all 1.16.0-0ubuntu1.1
[64.0 kB]
<br>
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oneiric-updates/main libunity-core-4.0-4 amd64 4.28.0-0ubuntu2
[168 kB]
<br>
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oneiric-updates/main unity-services amd64 4.28.0-0ubuntu2
[27.9 kB]
<br>
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oneiric-updates/main linux-generic amd64 3.0.0.15.17 [1,712 B]
<br>
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oneiric-updates/main linux-image-generic amd64 3.0.0.15.17
[2,454 B]
<br>
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oneiric-updates/main linux-headers-3.0.0-15 all 3.0.0-15.26
[11.2 MB]
<br>
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oneiric-updates/main linux-headers-3.0.0-15-generic amd64
3.0.0-15.26 [858 kB]
<br>
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oneiric-updates/main linux-headers-generic amd64 3.0.0.15.17
[2,446 B]
<br>
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oneiric-updates/main nux-tools amd64 1.16.0-0ubuntu1.1 [10.7
kB]
<br>
Get:13 <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a>
oneiric-updates/main update-notifier-common all 0.117ubuntu3.2
[10.6 kB]
<br>
Fetched 50.4 MB in 29s (1,720 kB/s)
<br>
Selecting previously deselected package
linux-image-3.0.0-15-generic.<br>
(Reading database ... 210127 files and directories currently
installed.)<br>
Unpacking linux-image-3.0.0-15-generic (from
.../linux-image-3.0.0-15-generic_3.0.0-15.26_amd64.deb) ...<br>
Done.</blockquote>
<div>... and went on to do the operation...</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Rob</div>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Rob
Haag <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rhaag71@gmail.com" target="_blank">rhaag71@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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).<span><font color="#888888">
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<div><span><font color="#888888">Rob</font></span>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 7:38
PM, BrianO'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com" target="_blank">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 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. <br>
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.
<div>
<div><br>
<br>
<br>
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On 01/28/2012 09:02 PM, kevinlowrie wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre>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 <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388926,00.asp" target="_blank">http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388926,00.asp</a>
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.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel</a>
And for the really curious. Here is the 7/21/2011 post from Linus releasing it with his words.
<a href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/21/455" target="_blank">https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/21/455</a>
cheers and happy haxin9!
kevinlowrie
<a href="mailto:kevinlowrie@gmail.com" target="_blank">kevinlowrie@gmail.com</a>
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.
<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS</a>
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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