Logging in by ssh - last line - is anything wrong?

[Bo Berglund]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 07:53:43 +0100, David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net>
wrote:

>> So I did a full upgrade and it listed new kernel being received.
>> Rebooted and and logged in again but the message is still there... :-
>> (
>> 
>> It says:
>> 
>> Welcome to Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-89-generic x86_64)

>Mine says
>Welcome to Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-155-generic x86_64)
>

Seems like we are on the same LTS version and yet you have a later kernel...

I have now checked the kernel in use:
$ uname -r5.4.0-89-generic

And these are all that exist on my system:

$ dpkg --list 'linux-image*' | grep ^ii
linux-image-5.4.0-155-generic  5.4.0-155.172  amd64  Signed kernel image generic
linux-image-5.4.0-89-generic   5.4.0-89.100   amd64  Signed kernel image generic
linux-image-generic            5.4.0.155.151  amd64  Generic Linux kernel image

So your kernel does exist on my system but is not used!!!

How can I *force* it to use the *newest* kernel when booting?

The server is headless and I always use SSH to interact with it.

I am in fact now 100 km away from it but it has an OpenVPN server service which
is used to connect the two sites together so I can work on it notwithstanding.

And if there are several kernels available, which will be used when there is no
access to the boot menu (I think that a selection of kernels is available
there)?

Possibly the oldest available? Looks like that above...


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden