Ubuntu-mate 1504 incompatibility with Celeron CPU

[Bret Busby]

On 06/08/2015, sktsee <sktseer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Aug 2015 02:20:40 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>
>>
>> And now for the latest update.
>>
>> I managed to install an extra couple of packages, before I stupidly
>> tried to do a system update.
>>
>> Part of the system update (from the iso version of the installation)
>> involved a new kernel version, which, without the PAE patch being
>> inbuilt into the new kernel, broke the update and broke the Ubuntu
>> Software Centre.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> So, I guess that I now have to overturn the apparent success of the
>> installation, with the reiteration that the operating system is
>> apparently incompatible with Intel Celeron CPU's, due to the lack of a
>> patch to fix the PAE problem, being built into the kernel, as if the
>> system can not undergo security updates and bugfixes, then it can not
>> be regarded as reasonably secure or stable.
>
> The error message you listed in a later post ("This kernel does not support
> a non-PAE CPU.") is caused by the kernel package's pre-install script
> checking /proc/cpuinfo for the pae flag and bailing out of the installation
> if it doesn't find it. Even though your Celeron cpu is PAE capable, and even
> though you specified "forcepae" as a kernel parameter, your cpu is not
> reporting that it has pae enabled. What you'll need to do before installing
> a kernel update is follow the instructions at the end of this page:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE/PentiumM to include pae in the flag
> list of enabled features.
>
> You may want to file a wishlist bug report against the linux-image package
> pre-install script to add a check to see if "forcepae" is present in
> /proc/cmdline so that the kernel package can be installed even if pae isn't
> found in /proc/cpuinfo.
>


That web page appears to apply to the Pentium M CPU.

I have been given a different solution that worked, which I shall put
in a reply to an appropriate previous message in the thread.

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Bret Busby
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