Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS apt problems - how to upgrade f/w?

[Bo Berglund]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:14:22 +0000, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com>
wrote:

>Are you keeping up to date with apt updates? That is, running the GUI tool
>"Software Updater" or the command line tools (e.g. sudo apt update and sudo
>apt upgrade)?

Yes I regularly run:
sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

Right now I get this:

sudo apt update
... list ....
All packages are up to date.

But when I log on (the server is headless so I do everything on an SSH command
line) I get this printed:

*** Kernel upgrade required. Kernel 5.4.0-89.100-generic Livepatch coverage has
ended ***

And I have rebooted just minutes ago thinking that a kernel update will require
a reboot.

Still the message is printed when I log on.

And I have this after the reboot:

uname -r
5.4.0-89-generic

So it still runs the old kernel, right? WHY?

$ dpkg --list 'linux-image*' | grep ^ii
ii  linux-image-5.4.0-200-generic           5.4.0-200.220  amd64        Signed
kernel image generic
ii  linux-image-5.4.0-89-generic            5.4.0-89.100   amd64        Signed
kernel image generic
ii  linux-image-generic                     5.4.0.200.196  amd64        Generic
Linux kernel image

So the generic seems to be 5.4.0.200.196 and yet uname -r prints the old
version.....

What to do to force it to switch?


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden