[DC LoCo] Kernel question

[Sujit Joshi]

I guess you have to run "sudo update-grub" after installing kernel.
See this http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man8/update-grub.8.html
 Worked for me. :)


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:31 PM, N.C. Weber <ncweber00 at earthlink.net>wrote:

> I usually use Ubuntu Tweak's Janitor tool to remove older kernels when an
> update is installed.  The one time I didn't do that, my computer kept
> crashing the desktop interface five minutes after logging in.  Took me a
> while to figure out I had to remove three older kernels on the system. Once
> I did that, it ran smooth as butter.
>
> Your problem is most likely different, though from your description.
>
> - N.C. Weber
>   Curator of the Afrodiseum
>   http://www.afrodiseum.com
>
>
> On 12/18/2012 08:22 AM, Marti Martinson wrote:
>
>> I always update what update-manager indicates is available. I have done
>> very little adding of apps or customizing.
>>
>> It appears that since my upgrade from 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS none of the
>> kernel images that downloaded during updates ever REALLY got installed, or
>> my grub is confused. I installed, supposedly, 3.2.0-35 this morning, and I
>> ran "uname -r" - which I had not done in a VERY long time. It returned
>> 3.2.0-29.
>>
>> I started synaptic and searched for linux-image. Sure enough I have
>> several listed. In 10.04 the same thing occured (the listing of multiple
>> kernels) but the LATEST always booted up with no conflicts.
>>
>> Any pointers on how to point to the latest linux-image will be
>> appreciated. The box is booting fine and all apps run OK, except flash
>> which eats up ALL CPU and drags everything down. I have a laptop with a
>> much smaller Ubuntu based distro (also 12.04) but their kernels and flash
>> all work "swimmingly".
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Marti
>>
>>
>>
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Sincerely,
Sujit Joshi.
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