linux-modules-extra

[Keith]

On 3/14/21 12:55 PM, Duncan Brown wrote:
> On 14/03/2021 16:00, Robbi Nespu wrote:
>> On 3/14/21 11:19 PM, Duncan Brown wrote:
>>> Hello All
>>>
>>> Any ideas why since the update to the 5.8 kernel on 20.04.2 LTS I've
>>> had to manually install linux-modules-extra each time?
>>>
>>> Each update (5.8.0-42-generic, 5.8.0-43-generic and now
>>> 5.8.0-44-generic I've rebooted to no network adapter, and then have
>>> to drop back a kernel version and manually apt install
>>> linux-modules-extra-5.8.0-XX-generic
>>>
>>> thanks
>>
>> Maybe you are missing linux-generic* package?
>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1265137/avoid-missing-kernel-linux-modules-extra-xx-generic-when-updating-kernel
>>
>>
> Looks like I was missing the linux-generic-hwe-20.04 meta package as
> mentioned in that link. The update to 5.8 came through a regular apt
> upgrade so not sure why the meta package wasnt upgraded along with it.
>
> Either way, thanks both, that should fix it by the look of things
>
>
I think you'll still need to check if the linux packages are identified
as auto or manually installed in order for the autoremove process to
work correctly. You can use "apt-mark" for that.

$ apt-mark showmanual |grep ^linux
linux-generic-hwe-20.04
linux-libc-dev

$ apt-mark showauto |grep ^linux
inux-base
linux-firmware
linux-headers-5.8.0-43-generic
linux-headers-5.8.0-44-generic
linux-headers-generic-hwe-20.04
linux-hwe-5.8-headers-5.8.0-43
linux-hwe-5.8-headers-5.8.0-44
linux-image-5.8.0-43-generic
linux-image-5.8.0-44-generic
linux-image-generic-hwe-20.04
linux-modules-5.8.0-43-generic
linux-modules-5.8.0-44-generic
linux-modules-extra-5.8.0-43-generic
linux-modules-extra-5.8.0-44-generic
linux-sound-base

Only linux-generic-hwe-20.04 should be manually installed. Everything
else (headers, image, modules, firmware) should be set to auto
installed. That way when upon installing an updated kernel, apt will
update /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove-kernels to keep last two kernels
and let older ones be available to autoremove. Apt won't autoremove any
old kernel images that have been manually installed.

You can use apt-mark to change the installation status of a package.

$ sudo apt-mark auto|manual <package>

--
Keith