Kernel reverted to 386 version
Bug #61231 reported by
thedarkwinter
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux-meta (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Brian Murray | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: linux-image-
Hi
Firstly Im running AMD64 (6.06) installed from the AMD64 Desktop CD.
Im not entirely sure how this happened, i just noticed this morning when the automatic updates came up, there was an update kernel to ....386, so i did the uname -r thing, and i am currently running 386 version(!?!), and doing a search in synaptic for linux image it doesn't even give me the amd64-generic package to select. Yesterday it came up with a kernel update but i didn't really look at what it was, i just let it install.
Dont know if thats helpful at all to you...
Michael
Revision history for this message
| Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in linux-meta: | |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Needs Info |
Revision history for this message
| Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in linux-meta: | |
| assignee: | nobody → brian-murray |
| status: | Needs Info → Rejected |
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This really makes no sense to me. Technically this should not even be possible unless you did something strange with your system.
First off, the -386 package is not available from the amd64 repository. There's no way synaptic should have even seen it.
Secondly, even if you did install the -386 kernel on an 64-bit system, it would not boot, simply because the 32-bit -386 kernel would not be able to run the x86_64 binaries.
So my guess is that you somehow manually installed the 64-bit kernel at some point and are now getting hosed by an upgrade that is setting your system back correctly.
What I need from you is the output of the following commands:
dpkg --print-
uname -a
ls -l /boot/.
file -L /lib/libc.so.6
dpkg -l | grep linux
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