Problems w/ Kernels on Hardy

Shannon McMackin smcmackin at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 13:47:39 UTC 2008


chris wrote:
> Marius,
> 
> thank you so very much for the commands below.  They worked like a charm.
> 
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
>> At the moment when you're seeing this, do you still have
>> linux-image-2.6.24-16-generic (and -17-generic) installed?  From the
>> error messages it would seem that you don't, but apt shouldn't have
>> allowed that to happen.
> 
> No... they are no longer installed.  I needed to free up space on my
> /boot to get -18 installed so I had removed -16.  Then -18 installed
> fine.  But then I figured I didn't need -17 so removed it as well..
> and then these errors cropped up.
> 
> I'll head over to launchpad and enter something.  I wasn't exaclty
> sure if I hit a bug or if it was self induced due to me being stupid.
> 
> I'm trying to recreate on a vm but having no luck so I'm leaning more
> towards I was being stupid and I'm not remembering something I've
> done.
> 
Chris,

As a rule of thumb, I try to keep a current available kernel and the 1 
previous working kernel, just in case something goes awry...





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