-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 05/14/2014 02:55 AM, Reco wrote:
> Hi. > > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 08:40:11PM -0400, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: > >> Before you reboot, do you need to issue the command sudo >> update-grub ?? > > Every linux-image package should contain a post-install script which > will invoke grub-install without human intervention. They do appear to, but in my experience, not uncommonly when running a dist-upgrade that includes a linux-image* upgrade something will get messed up about the order of events; the script will get run at the wrong time, and then not get re-run later when it needs to. The result, which I've seen frequently, is that the new kernel shows up in the GRUB boot menu, but the GRUB boot entry does not include the matching initrd - and as a result, that kernel will not boot. If I reboot into the previous kernel, in most - possibly all - all cases the needed initrd does already exist under /boot. If I then run 'update-grub' by hand and reboot again, the boot entry then properly mentions the initrd and booting that kernel works properly. I don't know what package(s) this would be a bug in, since AFAIK it seems to be caused by the order in which various packages get processed during the dist-upgrade process, not by issues in e.g. the scripts of any particular package; I also don't have a means of intentionally reproducing the problem, much less doing so on demand. That's why I've never reported a bug about this, but I've definitely seen it in at least a large fraction of kernel-image upgrades in the past. (It may or may not be relevant that I frequently don't reboot right away after installing an updated kernel image, and in fact may install multiple such updates before I finally reboot. My typical uptime in between reboots is at least a month and a half, probably at least two or three months, but I dist-upgrade to testing at least once every two or three weeks.) - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTc1ckAAoJEASpNY00KDJry9QP/0L41cWFy6ikczFhaRopXGNt wArZaDn3yAGCYZ/UsJvzRSufmamXkL+nvds0M8IAPqyF6PFvEapZ6swO+K6EEHqQ Tmmh206AaGrjnFvRQxcXRTWLqi2mABvLKgPC2o4lROLAyJgyq1Y+AOihh3GOHZYh gDUK2gxqn8eUBhnN/d2VWMPZ38xUGH3KLhWhWKFqSZrpVO2gXuvzcvhvj2J38Vat E9lkeREVpyGN/AgAA38D+QWyoC49GEuV3z/Laen9iuohXQjRdPgyzOgalTaGunkf SOSRN2vo7R3XjDKoT9RUn4hZ+jDmRsTgau3C8nxhvn1tWfgKwNLHLSpxju8zf1Ax 5t+zbzIIrgsKC19JxZHUFfmDpm92NPFK9BAPZyb/e6TA95fN1fg2VP86Aijj050X tD2WX5ATo8UY5yd9voaLA4DuZt+EnQegaGVDeOlnI2WjOCuIZn8eis9JzMiOnr8P BkWuGTs8Sr3Z1s6iJSTMlsvUypt4SwkWlIMUN02kFa+QadRKBxUSzoUvl3bBPNQn BPw5qWwYBImLZTvQ+Qxc3OTyKIh2bqSFqK0oIGwcdxEVCj6GJ+XtdP4SQSjt2Scp 5c+YeAJ5NxT9D6m1BNP+8NWM5HHqaRUgSkVuwqN4U8tcOSaUT0O8U+MjlMEQaKOu 2M5T9/PKPioIpqFwKLuC =PVp+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53735724.9030...@fastmail.fm
