Re: dmesg output: impending hardware failure?

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

James Miller wrote:
[...]
> On 
> the Synaptic issue: you are undoubtedly aware that Synaptic is a 
> graphical frontend for apt, I suppose? 

Actually, no. I always use apt from the command line so I missed this 
front end. oops.
[...]

>I really didn't want an
> updated kernel since I run vmware and have to recompile modules for it 
> every time a new kernel comes along, and I'm not entirely sure how I got 
> the kernel. I've looked at packages on the system and can't see where 
> new 2.6.x kernels are supposed to be part of my dist-upgrade, but that's 
> another issue. 

How did you install the kernel? That is, did you install the general 2.6 
package for your architecture (kernel-image-2.6-386, for example) or did 
you install a specific kernel minor version (for example, 
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386)?

If you did it the first way, that's why you are getting the updates ... 
every time a new kernel package is introduced, the general packages 
(which Debian calls "transition" packages for reasons I do not know) are 
updated to point to the new version. So apt-get dist-upgrade (maybe even 
an apt-get upgrade) will upgrade this package just like any other.

If you did it the second way, it should not be happening (at least the 
way I understand the apt-get [dist-]upgrade process to work) except when 
a new version of that specific kernel is introduced, so I can't be of help.

If the question doesn't mean anything to you, do an "apt-cache search 
kernel-image-2.6" and look at some of the package descriptions for the 
packages it lists.



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