Fw: Re: update manager refuses to upgrade kernel to newer version

[Spyros Tsiolis]

--- On Fri, 12/2/16, Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: update manager refuses to upgrade kernel to newer version
> To: "Users Ubuntu" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Friday, 12 February, 2016, 19:46
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> On Fri, 12/2/16, Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
>  Subject: Re: update manager refuses to upgrade kernel to
> newer version
>  To: "not for general discussionsUbuntu user technical
> support" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>  Date: Friday, 12 February, 2016, 17:34
>  
>  
>  Hi Oli,
>  
>  --------------------------------------------
>  On Fri, 12/2/16, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com>
>  wrote:
>  
>   Subject: Re: update manager refuses to upgrade kernel
> to
>  newer version
>   To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>   Date: Friday, 12 February, 2016, 17:23
>   
>   hi,
>   Am
>   Freitag, den 12.02.2016, 15:07 +0000 schrieb Spyros
>   Tsiolis:
>   > thank you for the reply.
>   > No, I am afraid it's a personal
>   custom-made version, not LTSP.
>   > I've
>   followed the thin-client vanilla installation from
> the
>   ubuntu site and
>   > adapted parts so that
>   it would fit my clients' needs.
>   >
>   Server is an ubuntu 14.04 X64 and thin clients boot
> from
>   PXE
>   > and run Ubuntu 12.04 x86
>   
>   so i guess you have something
>   like a dedicated nfs root for your clients
>   which you boot from a pxe loaded intird ? if
>   so, just remove the
>   grub-common package,
>   then it should be fine ...
>   
>   ciao
>       oli
>  --------------------------------------------
>  
>  
>  Yes, this is the installation more or less.
>  
>  I'll try and find "grub-common" and remove it.
>  Thank you.
>  I do think that I took everything "grub*" away from the
>  system.
>  Oh well. I'll check again.
>  
>  Thank you ,
>  
>  s.
>  --------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> Oli,
> 
> I did it.
> Got rid of grub-common. System asked for a re-boot.
> I rebooted. However, now, I have to be physically there to
> see what happened.
> 
> Looks like you were right though.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> spyros
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Well,  it seems I was wrong. 
The system gets as stubborn as a donkey.
In addition to all the hubbub, I discovered that the system
is stuck on kernel v3.x-46 when it should be 3.x-77.
It seems that update manager does not like what is going on
with grub and it froze kernel updates.

Chaps, the way I see it is "unhalt" all grub packaged and see what
happens.

In any case Oli / Ralph thank you.

Ralph I didn't get the chance to thank for that lengthy message you
wrote in regards to circumventing this problem.
To tell you the truth I didn't get the chance of sitting down and
studying your message.

Thank you all,

spyros