[lubuntu-users] What happened?? apt freezes during dist-upgrade in kinetic??

[Fritz Hudnut]

I jumped the queue and booted Lu this morning . . . it was still showing
5.13 as the kernel . . . ran a 93 package upgrade . . . no mention of a
kernel in the list . . . went through w/o error . . . .

Booted over into master grub control system . . . updated the grub
bootloader . . . then back into Lu . . . ran another apt . . . couple
packages to upgrade . . . nothing on the kernel.

Uname -r still showing "5.13.0-16" . . . ????  I guess the question is, if
Sid is running 5.10 why would kinetic be running 5.19???

And, then, other interesting question, why did apt show something like 5.15
the last time I was in Lu . . . but then "hang" and lose track of it???

These are somewhat "moot" . . . in that Lu boots and runs OK . . . but,
something "happened" last week . . .????

F

On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 12:51 PM Fritz Hudnut <este.el.paz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nio:
>
> I guess there was a post on the list that I didn't get, as I'm on digest .
> . . .  But, thanks guys for checking on the "5.19" . . . I'm doing "weekly"
> apt update/upgrade and pretty sure I saw it was attempting to install
> 5.15??? (something less than 5.19)  and then now seems to have selected
> 5.13 . . . ???
>
> I ran the master grub bootloader this morning, which should select the
> newest kernel in Lu . . . next time I boot into it . . . .  And I did run
> "apt -f install" and that brought back "nothing to do" . . . it didn't show
> anything "broken" and so forth.
>
> I will also check synaptic to see if it shows anything broken . . .
> sometimes it can actually "fix broken"  and sometimes it "blinks its eyes"
> and nothing happens . . . .  I was looking through my cheat sheet notes for
> how to fix problems, but I didn't see anything on "dpkg" and/or how to use
> it to find and fix any issues . . . ???
>
> Anyway . . . I'll get back to it in a bit and see if grub found the 5.19
> kernel option to boot up . . . .
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 12:05 PM Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Den 2022-09-06 kl. 20:57, skrev Israel Dahl:
>> > On 9/6/22 09:31, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
>> >> > . . . .  On cold boot FF came back.
>> >>
>> >>     >
>> >>     > But, the question of what happened with apt was the more
>> important
>> >>     > question . . . was it trying to install a too new kernel and then
>> >>     > tried to back out of it?  It was an odd episode . . . .
>> >>     >
>> >>     > F
>> >>     >
>> >>     Hey Fritz,
>> >>
>> >>     You could search for the available kernels to see which ones are
>> >>     available, and which ones are installed.
>> >>
>> >>     You can also look in the /var/log/dpkg.log something like:
>> >>
>> >>     grep "upgrade " /var/log/dpkg.log
>> >>
>> >>     That might give you a starting point.
>> >>
>> >>     As for the disappearance of firefox, I think snap/flatpak packages
>> >>     don't
>> >>     always show up after install, there may be a way to force it to
>> >>     update
>> >>     the menus but I don't really like to use either of those unless I
>> >>     *really* have to, so I don't know off the top of my head/
>> >>
>> >>     --
>> >>     😷
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Israel:
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the suggestions . . . I'll check into them when I get back
>> >> to Lu in a few days.  One of my problems is that since I'm rotating
>> >> OSs each day, I don't know where each system is vis the kernel.
>> >> Possibly kinetic is a "5.13" base system, but I did see "5.15" in the
>> >> upgrade list. Yesterday I was in Tumbleweed, which is 5.19 . . . and
>> >> then today I'm in Deb Sid, which I thought would be like 5.20??? but,
>> >> nope, uname -r shows "5.10" . . . .
>> >>
>> >> The good news is that whatever blew up in the middle or end of the
>> >> apt, the kinetic system rebooted into the GUI . . . .  It was just a
>> >> rare instance of a "hang" in the apt dist-upgrade.
>> >>
>> >> F
>> >>
>> > It looks like Kinetic has a 5.19 now, so you should try to update again.
>> >
>> > You should check to see that everything was unpacked in that last
>> > upgrade as well.  You might need to use dpkg to fix things if not.
>> >
>> > --
>> > 😷
>>
>> Hi Fritz and Israel,
>>
>> I can confirm that Kinetic is a 5.19 now. Today I installed Lubuntu via
>>
>> kinetic-preinstalled-server-amd64.img.xz
>>
>> and lubuntu-desktop, installed into it when running in an external SSD
>> according to
>>
>> "Ubuntu Server amd64 compressed image (when extracted) boots in UEFI and
>> BIOS mode",
>>
>> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2474692
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
>>
>>
>>
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