Different kernels on my servers?

[Tom H]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Knute Johnson <ubuntu at knutejohnson.com> wrote:
>
> So I was getting another server up and running in case my old one died and
> found they have different kernels.
>
> Old: Linux knutejohnson 3.2.0-30-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 24 16:52:48
> UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> New: Linux knute3 3.16.0-38-generic #52~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 8
> 09:43:57 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Both are 14.04.2LTS. The new one had a kernel held back when I did my
> update and upgrade so I did a dist-upgrade but it was still a 3.16 kernel
> before that. The old computer was upgraded from an earlier version of
> server but that shouldn't stop kernel upgrades? Do I have something set
> somewhere to prevent my old server from upgrading the kernel?

You mustn't have kernel metapackages installed on the 3.2 system (a
12.04 kernel).

Look into installing linux-image-generic and linux-image-generic-lts-utopic.