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Author: o1bigtenor
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To: wirelessduck
CC: Devuan ML
Subject: Re: [DNG] request for assistance
On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 6:14 AM wirelessduck--- via Dng
<dng@???> wrote:
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> On 7 Jan 2022, at 22:02, o1bigtenor via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
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> Greetings
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> Basic question is: what happened?
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> I wanted to update a beowulf system.
> So did the apt update, apt upgrade, apt dist-upgrade
> after changing the references in /etc/apt/sources.list
> from beowulf to chimaera.
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> After reboot - - - well - - - screen says devuan but
> uname -r is 4.19.xx and not 5.10.xx
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> Any ideas as to how I update the kernel?
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> TIA
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> Do you have the linux-image-amd64 package installed? This is the meta-package that depends on the latest Linux kernel package for the currently installed release; 4.19 for beowulf and 5.10 for chimaera. Without this package there is nothing to tell APT to install the newer kernel package on dist-upgrade.
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> https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/policy-query.html?c=package&q=linux-image-amd64&x=submit


No - - - dunno how but all that was installed was a kernel.

Thanks for the tip!

Regards