Different kernels on my servers?

[sktsee]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 07:43:54 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:

> So I was getting another server up and running in case my old one died
> and found they have different kernels.
> 
> Old: Linux knutejohnson 3.2.0-30-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 24
> 16:52:48 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> New: Linux knute3 3.16.0-38-generic #52~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 8
> 09:43:57 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Both are 14.04.2LTS.  The new one had a kernel held back when I did my
> update and upgrade so I did a dist-upgrade but it was still a 3.16
> kernel before that.  The old computer was upgraded from an earlier
> version of server but that shouldn't stop kernel upgrades? Do I have
> something set somewhere to prevent my old server from upgrading the
> kernel?
> 

Certain missing kernel-related metapackages will cause your kernel 
package to be skipped during an update if there is a bump to the ABI 
version of the updated kernel (going from, say, 3.13.0.24.27 to 
3.13.0.25.27). That's probably the case with the old server, unless you 
pinned that version as Andrew suggested. For the new server, you probably 
have linux-image-generic-lts-utopic installed since you have its kernel 
running on your trusty server. You may want to consider installing linux-
image-generic-lts-vivid soon since utopic will reach EOL this July and 
its kernel package will no longer be updated. 

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sktsee