Many thanks for the pointers! I have read, absorbed, digested and acted upon
the advice.
Here's another oddity: after installing my network printer (Brother
HL-5250DN, CUPS) a symbol appears which tells me that there is no network
connection and no network devices have been detected. Meanwhile, I'm copying
files between nodes and the printer is working perfectly.
Why is Debian lying to me? :D
On 06/09/07, john lewis <johnlewis@???> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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> John Lewis
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