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Why do I run Linux version 5.10 after upgrading to Debian 12 instead of version 6?
I upgraded from Debian11 to D12 and cat /etc/debian_version, KDE Info Center, lsb_release -a and all other ways to show the current Debian version show and showed Debian 12. The upgrade seems to have ...
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upgrade red hat 7 to 8 failed with error "/bin/upgrade: line 19: /sysroot/var/tmp/system-upgrade.state: No such file or directory" in leapp reboot
I'm Troubleshooting an issue. Need help debugging kernel boot or open console to look into journal during boot.
Im running a rhel 7.9 maschine that I'm upgrading to 8.6 with leapp-upgrade tool.
After ...
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VFS: cannot open root device "nvme1n1p4" or unknown-block & Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
I was in the process of upgrading my Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04. Unfortunately, I made an error during the upgrade process. I decided to restart the computer hoping it would fix the problem. Now I'm unable ...
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Upgrade problems in debian 12 [duplicate]
After writing sudo apt update I writed sudo apt upgrade, but the result of sudo apt upgrade was:
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Calculating upgrade......
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Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) - Possible missing firmware (*.huc*; *.guc*; *.dmc* for module i915)
After upgrading the linux-kernel on a Debian testing System:
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-7-amd64
Architecture: x86-64
Hardware Vendor: TOSHIBA
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How to rollback to previous kernel in Fedora when new update shows blank screen at boot?
In fedora 37 I did
sudo dnf -y update
It updated the packages and kernel. But I remember that I didn't reboot the system after that. I just powered it off.
The next day, the boot menu showed the ...
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Debian 11 hangs while booting after kernel update to 5.10.0-21
Debian 11 hangs while booting after kernel update to 5.10.0-21. Interestingly, when I'm selecting previous kernel (5.10.0-20) everything works ok. Tried several times. Any idea?
Cheers,
Leszek
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Is it possible & safe to use latest kernel with Debian?
I have been using Debian stable which currently uses version 5.10 of the Linux kernel. However now I want to try out 6.0.9. Is it possible to manually install a new Linux kernel instead of the one my ...
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Can't install any package: "package linux-image-5.4.0-42-generic is missing final newline"?
I tried to install some package updates on my Ubuntu 20.04.5, but everything fails with:
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'linux-image-5.4.0-42-generic' is ...
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Why are old kernel images not removed automatically to free required space on boot partition on Debian?
I do have unattended-upgrades (2.8) installed and the process is running.
Yet it frequently happens that I get this error when trying to install upgrades:
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0....
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Can't remove old kernel images to free disk space to solve "linux-image-... but it is not installed" / "failed to write (No space left on device)"
When I run sudo apt-get upgrade or sudo apt-get autoremove, it returns:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --...
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How should I handle the problem "package contains empty filename" that stops me from installing the newest kernel update?
I have just tried to install the newest kernel update and it fails at the package linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-109-generic with the following output: (username and hostname are not the real ones ;)
user@...
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How to upgrade with kernel taking more than half of /boot
The latest Linux kernel now takes more than half of my /boot space. Next time I want to upgrade, how do I do that? Can I purge the current in-use kernel and then issue aptitude full-upgrade or do-...
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Web browsers missing characters
I regularly update my Linux system (mint 19.1 Tessa). After a recent update many of the websites I visit appear to have missing characters, at least visually.
I've tried on Firefox and Chromium based ...
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Upgrade to linux-image-4.9.0-13-amd64 uninstalled mongoDB
Here's my problem. I'm managing two VM servers under proxmox. Recentry, I upgraded (with apt update & apt upgrade) a lot of the VM linux kernels to linux-image-4.9.0-13-amd64 through the update ...
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