New Kernel won't install on Dapper

[Tim Frost]

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 15:27 -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > > > > The updates this morning included a new 386 Kernel but the update
> > > > > manager complains it can't install 2.6.15.10. It seems somehow it
> > > > > skipped 2.6.15.8 as my current Kernel is 2.6.15.6.  What's the way
> > > > > around this ??
> > > >
> > > > what is the error you get?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > >
> > > Apt-get and/or the update manager just say two packages will be held
> > > back and not upgraded. Even forcing them in Synaptic doesn't do it.
> >
> > does apt-get dist-upgrade  gives yuou any hints of which packages are
> > beeing held back?
> > (and for which reason)?
> 
Three packages are held back in Kununtu, and 2 in Ubuntu.  They are:
linux-image-386
linux-restricted-modules-386
k3b (Kubuntu)

The latest release of linux-image-386 (version 2.6.15.8) depends on
linux-image-2.6.15-10-386, but that package is not installable
(apt-cache show linux-image-2.6.15-10-386 finds no package)

Similarly, linux-restricted-modules-386 version 2.6.15.8
 depends on
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-10-386, but the upgrade installed an
older version (linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-9-386).

It appears that the repository (or at least the mirror I use) doesn't
have the 2.6.15-10 linux packages (for i386 architecture at least).

I haven't checked what the issue is with k3b.

> 
> For the record, I'm now getting the same problem while trying to
> upgrade from 2.6.9 to 2.6.10.  Probably the best is to wait a few
> hours to see if the problem goes away from the current state of the
> Dapper archive.
> 
> 
> --
> Daniel Robitaille
>