Recent kernels

[Ric Moore]

On 09/27/2013 04:11 PM, R Kimber wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:51:05 -0400
> Ric Moore wrote:
>
>> On 09/27/2013 06:38 AM, R Kimber wrote:
>>> I started having instability after the upgrade to kernel 3.2.0-53 and my
>>> machine won't boot at all with the latest kernel - it hangs at some
>>> stage in the boot process before the login screen.
>>>
>>> However, I can boot happily with 3.2.0-51 and that seems to be stable
>>> on my machine.
>
>
>> If, for instance, you have an nVidia video card and it wasn't properly
>> upgraded to the newer kernel, it might be attempting to load nouveau,
>> which on my setup is a complete fail with three monitors and two video
>> cards. I'd rather see fall-back revert to svga myself.
>>
>> Maybe jam the install CD in there and refresh grub?? Trouble shooting
>> with a shotgun. Ric
>
> Thanks. Well I think I'm using nouveau anyway. I previously had a lot of
> problems with jockey and the nVidia drivers. Is there a nouveau problem with
> recent kernels?

I had a problem with using jockey as well, when this occured. I 
"think"/"dimly recall"  what fixed it was to boot into the last working 
kernel, and my nVidia driver came back to life. Then I upgraded using 
apt-get. It pulled in some additional kernel packages, and on next 
reboot nVidia was running on the new kernel.

I "think" that one of the gui update managers runs as user and not as 
root. So, when you see packages have been left behind, those are 
reserved for root user to retrieve. If you have multiple users, I can 
see a case for that. Ric



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