Reboot when older kernel is updated?

[Nils Kassube]

On 09.08.24 MR ZenWiz wrote:
> I'm running Xubuntu 22.04.4 LTS, which reports as:
>
> marbase 6.5.0-45-generic #45~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon
> Jul 15 16:40:02 UTC 2 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> DISTRIB_RELEASE=22.04
> DISTRIB_CODENAME=jammy
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS"
>
> I received an update to the 22.04 base kernel, 5.15.0-118, but the
> updater insists I now have to reboot. The 6.5.0-45 kernel was NOT
> updated.
>
> I've seen this happen on every 5.15 kernel update since I upgraded the
> kernel to 6.5.
>
> Why does the software updater insist I must reboot to install the
> older kernel changes?

You seem to have the packages linux-generic and linux-generic-hwe-22.04 installed (I don't have 22.04 running, so I'm not sure). The kernel install scripts don't expect such a setup so they will expect you're just updating to the latest kernel version. Therefore you will get the reboot reminder. I think you should just ignore the reminder. If you don't really need the 5.15.x kernels you could remove the packages linux-generic, linux-headers-generic and linux-image-generic to avoid updates for the 5.15.x kernels in the future and also the reminders.


Nils