Kernel Panic after reboot because no new kernel was installed during the upgrade

I had the same problem. The update tool showed a dpkg error in subprocess while removing old packages such as old kernel etc. Then it crashed. In fact old kernel 2.6.17-11 was removed, but GRUB was not amended accordingly.

Booting with 2.6.17-10 was possible, perhaps the update tool was crashed before removing 2.6.17-10. But, restricted-modules for 2.6.17-10 were not installed. I was a bit in trouble to fix this, because WLAN was not working and manuals for editing GRUB are usually found in the web.

Since I´m lazy I installed the restricted-modules for 2.6.17-10 from the Install-CD of 6.10 and thereafter with working WLAN I reinstalled the new kernel 2.6.20 whereas GRUB was updated correctly.

Thanks for your bugreport.

Can you please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade ? This will help us diagnose the problem.

Thanks,
 Michael

Ok, here is the apt-log file. I´m not really confirm with those things, but as far as I understood the apt.log, there was a problem with nvidia-glx. Therefore it might be helpfull for you to know, that I had the nvidia drivers installed from alberto milones repository.

http://www.albertomilone.com/driver.html

... and here´s the main.log

Thanks for your bugreport.

This problem is fixed in my local tree and the fix will be part of the next upload. It will ensure that there is a linux-image-$flavour installed that matches the installed (uname -r) flavour.

Cheers,
 Michael