Ubuntu-mate 1504 incompatibility with Celeron CPU

[silver.bullet at zoho.com]

On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 02:20:40 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>So, the system apparently can not be updated, and, now, no more
>packages can be installed, due to the lack of a PAE patch being built
>into the kernel.

It's easy to build a kernel package with an Ubuntu config, but with PAE
disabled. Disabling or enabling PAE doesn't need a patch, it depends to
the kernel's configuration.

That's from a script I wrote to build Ubuntu kernel packages:

[rocketmouse at archlinux src]$ grep -B2 -A1 HIGHMEM quantal-rt 
 
 # 32-bit only
 # HIGHMEM from 4G to 64G
 # echo "CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set" >> .config
 # echo "CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y" >> .config
 
[rocketmouse at archlinux src]$

Depending to the HIGHMEM settings you can enable or disable PAE.

The trouble you've got unlikely has anything to do with PAE.

Run

sudo -i
apt-get update

then run

apt-get upgrade

and post the output of apt-get upgrade.

Also post the output of

grep -v "#" /etc/apt/sources.list | grep [[:blank:]]

and

ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list.d/