New(er) Kernel

[Colin Law]

On 14 December 2013 11:32, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 December 2013 18:07, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12/13/2013 10:44 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>> so I run synaptic and I see ( with no check marks, but available)
>>>> > linux                            3.11.0.14.15
>>>> > Linux image               3.11.0.14.15
>>>> > linux-generic              3.11.0.14.15
>>>> > linux-tools                   3.11.0.14.15
>>>> >
>>>> > when I look at repositories- Updates. all are checked EXCEPT for
>>>> > Pre-released updates ( saucy-proposed)
>>> What do you see from
>>> apt-cache policy linux-image-generic
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>>>
>>  apt-cache policy linux-image-generic
>> linux-image-generic:
>>   Installed: (none)
>>   Candidate: 3.11.0.14.15
>>   Version table:
>>      3.11.0.14.15 0
>>         500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy-security/main amd64
>> Packages
>>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy-updates/main
>> amd64 Packages
>>      3.11.0.12.13 0
>>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages
>
> I think that is the cause of the problem, somehow linux-image-generic
> has been uninstalled.  I believe that is a package containing no files
> but depending on the latest kernel files, so updating
> linux-image-generic will cause the kernel to be upgraded.  I suggest
> therefore
> sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic

In fact thinking about it further  I suggest
sudo apt-get install -s linux-image-generic
That will simulate the install and show you what it would do.  If that
looks good then remove the -s

Colin