[Bug 1633903] Re: linux-image-4.8.0 not installed upon upgrade to yakkety if linux-generic not installed

[Brian Murray]

Verily verified.

2016-11-01 15:23:38,254 INFO release-upgrader version '16.10.8' started
...
2016-11-01 15:24:19,312 DEBUG quirks: running PostDistUpgradeCache
2016-11-01 15:24:19,312 DEBUG running Quirks.PostDistUpgradeCache
2016-11-01 15:24:19,886 DEBUG Comparing 4.4.0-31 with
2016-11-01 15:24:19,891 DEBUG Comparing 4.4.0-38 with 4.4.0-31
2016-11-01 15:24:19,891 DEBUG Comparing 4.8.0-26 with 4.4.0-38
2016-11-01 15:24:20,189 INFO installing linux metapackage: linux-generic
2016-11-01 15:24:20,189 DEBUG Installing 'linux-generic' (linux metapackage may have been accidentally uninstalled)


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Title:
  linux-image-4.8.0 not installed upon upgrade to yakkety if linux-
  generic not installed

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Yakkety:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Test Case
  ---------
  1) On an Ubuntu 16.04 system uninstall linux-generic
  2) Upgrade from 16.04 to 16.10
  3) Observe you are running a 4.4 kernel instead of a 4.8 one

  With the version of the ubuntu-release-upgrader from -proposed, run by
  executing do-release-upgrade -p, the linux-generic package will be
  installed before upgrade and you should then be running a 4.8 kernel
  after upgrade.

  Original Description
  --------------------
  Upon booting into the newly upgraded ubuntu yakkety system I noticed that the kernel option that grub listed was still linux-image-4.4.0-21-generic.  The system booted okay, but in aptitude  linux-image-4.4.0-21-generic was marked as obsolete (which lead to interesting problems later https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/1633897).  That is okay too, and while granted the linux-image-generic metapackage was not installed, linux-image-4.8.x was not installed by the update/upgrade process.  What the upgrade process should probably do is upgrade to the new kernel that comes with the particular flavour being upgraded to.

  Upgrade: 16.04 -> 16.10

  ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:16.10.6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-22.24-generic 4.8.0
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-22-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Sun Oct 16 13:34:39 2016
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-09 (829 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140708)
  PackageArchitecture: allSourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-16 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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