Re: kernel not upgraded to wheezy

2013-07-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Jul 2013, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > For some reason a recent upgrade of grub2 led to a failed configure. I > found other people on Google, mainly ubuntu users,with a similar problem > but no obvious solution. I purged grub2 and reinstalled, but the same > error appeared. That was why I rev

Re: kernel not upgraded to wheezy

2013-07-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 Jul 2013, Joel Rees wrote: > > Although I have installed the 3.9 kernel and it is present in > /boot/grub/menu.lst, it never appears in the menu when I boot. Repeated > runs of update-grub don't fix this. I reverted to grub-legacy because of > configuration problems with

Re: kernel not upgraded to wheezy

2013-07-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 01 Jul 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > 1. Since the kernel packages have different names they are not upgrades > > in the sense of the package manager (like installing package foo version > > 1.2.3 to upgrade from foo version 0.1.2 i

Re: kernel not upgraded to wheezy

2013-07-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 01 iul 13, 09:19:31, Joel Rees wrote: > > Short story: upgraded squeeze to wheezy, kernel did not. But OS seems to > > run, so I'm using synaptic to install the kernel. (I know I should use > > apt-cache and apt-get, but I'm lazy and

Re: kernel not upgraded to wheezy

2013-07-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 Jul 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > 1. Since the kernel packages have different names they are not upgrades > in the sense of the package manager (like installing package foo version > 1.2.3 to upgrade from foo version 0.1.2 is). > > If you want/need this to be handled by the package mana

Re: kernel not upgraded to wheezy

2013-06-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 01 iul 13, 09:19:31, Joel Rees wrote: > Short story: upgraded squeeze to wheezy, kernel did not. But OS seems to > run, so I'm using synaptic to install the kernel. (I know I should use > apt-cache and apt-get, but I'm lazy and trying to do some other work that > needs to be done today.) >

Re: kernel not upgraded to wheezy

2013-06-30 Thread Joel Rees
FWIW, upgrading the kernel via synaptic seems to have worked. The shell is much more responsive, and doesn't get strange video glitches like it had been getting since the upgrade to wheezy. Still need to check the rest of /etc. On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > Short story: up

kernel not upgraded to wheezy

2013-06-30 Thread Joel Rees
Short story: upgraded squeeze to wheezy, kernel did not. But OS seems to run, so I'm using synaptic to install the kernel. (I know I should use apt-cache and apt-get, but I'm lazy and trying to do some other work that needs to be done today.) Wondering why, wondering how big a hole-in-my-foot I'm