[lubuntu-devel] Lu 20.10 running 5.4 kernel . . . still???

Walter Lapchynski wxl at ubuntu.com
Fri Dec 18 17:58:21 UTC 2020


There's a typo or two in that multiline command. Should be:

```
find /etc/apt -type f -name *.list -print0 | \
 xargs -0 grep -h ^deb | grep -v ^# | \
 egrep -v '(ubuntu|canonical).com'
```

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 09:47:32AM -0800, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 08:16:57AM -0800, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
> > linux-image-5.4.0-42-generic:
> >   Installed: 5.4.0-42.46
> 
> So it seems like you have only one kernel installed and curiously it's
> not one that's available in the kernel source by a long shot:
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/groovy/linux
> 
> …at least not in the Ubuntu repositories. That may be the issue: while
> you have an apparently groovy-compatible sources.list, you may have
> non-Ubuntu repositories in there. That alone shouldn't do anything (a
> higher version number should always take precedence no matter how many
> respositories with conflicting version numbers you have), but in
> combination with pinning it could. Check to see if you have something
> set in the /etc/apt/preferences file or in /etc/apt/preferences.d/
> somewhere (file could be called anything there, technically).
> 
> Pinning is nice in that it gives you a lot of control (`man
> apt_preferences` if you want to know more), but holding is the cleaner
> way of doing things. You can check to see if you have any holds with
> `apt-mark showhold.`
> 
> I guess it's also remotely possible you've removed all the Ubuntu
> repositories, which would be weird, but who knows. One way you can see
> all of the repositories you have enabled that are not from Ubuntu is
> with this:
> 
> ```
> find /etc/apt -type -f -name *.list | print0 | \
>  xargs -0 grep -h ^deb | grep -v ^# | \
>  egrep -v '(ubuntu|canonical).com'
> ```
> 
> You can see Pin-Priotity and sources for a particular package with
> `apt-cache policy` so run that against your installed kernel version and
> that might provide some insight.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
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