Latest Dapper Kernel Patch - No Kernel Sources

[L. Mark Stone]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 20:28 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On di, 2006-07-11 at 10:52 -0400, L. Mark Stone wrote:
> > 
> > Running Dapper and have now gone through two kernel updates
> > unsuccessfully.  Why?  Because Ubuntu does not release updated
> > kernel-sources packages concurrently with a new kernel. 
> 
> Nonsense.

Dennis,

This has happened twice, not once, so "nonsense" is neither constructive
nor illuminating.

The sequence of events both times have been:

1. Ubuntu generates a popup that there are new updates to be installed.

2. I click on the popup icon to install the updates. Reboot as prompted.

3. I then run vmware-config to update the vmware kernel modules, which
fails due to a mismatch between the running kernel and the kernel
headers.

4. I launch Synaptic, do a reload, and then a mark all updates.  No
available updates are shown.  At this point, I still have a mismatched
kernel, headers and sources.

5. Hours later I do the apt-get from a cli as suggested by tseliot. The
updated headers and sources install fine and vmware-config runs
successfully.

Not-fully-sync'ed mirrors?  Quite possibly.  But I am using ubuntu.com
sites in /etc/apt/sources.list.

I haven't had this issue with other distros, and I've been impressed by
the "fit 'n finish" quality of Ubuntu to date, so Dennis I hope you can
now appreciate my comments are not "nonsense" but are intended to be
constructive.

If you have any suggestions how I can avoid this problem in future,
short of manually inspecting the available kernel, kernel sources and
kernel header package versions before installing any of these updated
packages, I would be grateful for your advice.

Mark
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