On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 19:56:16 +0100
Adam Trickett <adam.trickett@???> wrote:
> I've seen this with the kernel before, and I usually plough on and
> install anyway. I'm not 100% what causes the error but it's bogus.
> The best thing to do is just install anyway with aptitude. This
> came up on the Debian Administration site recently, see:
>
> http://www.debian-administration.org/users/oxtan/weblog/13#comments
Yup! you will get a warning that you will need to reboot immediately
after installing the kernel. I think it may be due to Debian using
kernel meta packages which causes the apparent error as the meta
package has the same name each time but the content of the package
is different - I know what I mean but cannot explain it very
well ;-)
I do as Adam suggests and agree to installing the new kernel but
then reboot once the upgrade has completed. My uptime suffers but
that is the only disadvantage.
This is, IMHO, the sort of thing that happens with these gui updater
thingies that you get with KDE/Gnome and I always use command line
version of aptitude to update/upgrade my system
--
John Lewis
Debian (Sid) with the GeneWeb genealogy package
