12.04 upgrade kernel version question

[stan]

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 10:10:06PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 03:01:32PM -0400, stan wrote:
> > I upgraded my laptop to 12.04 this weekend, and it woulnd up at kernel
> > version 3.0.0-17-generic hope that is correct.
> 
> No: 12.04 uses a 3.2.0-something-generic kernel.  (The -something bit is
> -23 in precise itself, and -24 in precise-updates.)
> 
> Please install the 'linux-image-generic' package, if it's not installed
> already (it should be!), and maybe check your boot loader configuration,
> if you've manually edited it in the past -- maybe you have the latest
> kernel installed, but your bootloader is still booting the old kernel
> for some reason.
> 
> It's hard to say why you're running with an outdated kernel, without
> actually examining your system; but the two suggestions above should
> cover most of the possibilities.
> 
> > Problem is I ned Vurtualbox, which wants to build it's own kernel modules.
> > To do this I need the kernel headers, but there seems to be no packages for
> > thas version of the kernelt.
> 

Thanks, I did apt0get remove linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic and apt-get
install linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic. and all is well.

Thanks for the prompt help!


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