URGENT !!! : [USN-464-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

[Thilo Six]

Thilo Six wrote the following on 27.05.2007 10:31
> Thilo Six wrote the following on 26.05.2007 23:27
>> Hello
>>
>> The kernel security update [USN-464-1] is missing s.th.
>>
>> $ sudo aptitude show linux-generic | grep depend
>> Depends: linux-image-generic, linux-restricted-modules-generic
>>
>> $ sudo aptitude show linux-image-generic | grep depen
>> Depends: linux-image-2.6.20-15-generic
>>                             ^^
>>
>> from USN:
>> Ubuntu 7.04:
>>   linux-image-2.6.20-16-generic            2.6.20-16.28
>>                      ^^
>>
>> $ sudo aptitude update
>> $ aptitude dist-upgrade
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Reading extended state information
>> Initializing package states... Done
>> Building tag database... Done
>> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
>> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
>>
>> $ apt-cache policy linux-generic
>> linux-generic:
>>   Installed: 2.6.20.15.14
>>   Candidate: 2.6.20.15.14
>>
>> $ apt-cache policy linux-image-generic
>> linux-image-generic:
>>   Installed: 2.6.20.15.14
>>   Candidate: 2.6.20.15.14
>>
>> HTH Thilo
> 
> What is was trying to say is the upgrade path is broken.
> 
> BUT
> 
> now i
> $ aptitude install linux-image-2.6.20-16-generic
> 
> and now nvidia is broken !!
> <---------------------------------------------------------
> $ tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> (II) NVIDIA(0):     enabled.
> 
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
> (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> (II) UnloadModule: "ramdac"
> (II) UnloadModule: "fb"
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> --------------------------------------------------------->
> 
> $ uname --all
> Linux ub2 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Wed May 23 01:46:23 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> bye Thilo

$ apt-cache policy linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-generic
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-generic:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.6.20.5-16.28

the upgrade path is horrible broken

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