From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: dmesg output: impending hardware failure? Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:06:19 -0700 Message-ID: <4303D0FB.3040003@comarre.com> References: <43012AC7.2000606@gelm.net> <430366EA.5010303@comarre.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs