Possible mangled driver after kernel update

[gene heskett]

On 8/20/24 16:46, Little Girl wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> Liam Proven wrote:
> 
>> You should be fine. I've seen that error a few times.
> 
> It was a first for me.
> 
>> It seems to mean "this additional driver was installed in the kernel
>> you are removing", *not* "you are removing the kernel that you are
>> running right now!"
> 
> I see what you mean, although in looking at it again, the message was
> in reference to the driver that was removed rather than the new one
> that was installed.
> 
> Either way, it seems that this may not be an error at all and may
> simply be a standard message to let you know what was happening
> during the process of introducing a new driver and removing an old
> one in the event that a kernel it had interacted with was still in
> use, which it was. I realize it usually wouldn't be, but it's a
> condition the developers seem to have taken into consideration,
> perhaps for folks who care about up-time and don't reboot their
> systems or for folks like me who botch updates or both.
> 
> If I'd done the required reboot, the kernel the message was in
> reference to wouldn't have still been in use, making the message
> unnecessary, and there wouldn't have been an extra kernel for me to
> manually remove. Lesson learned and no harm done.
> 
little girl: One of the reasons I do system updates bass ackwards:
sudo apt autoremove && sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade. enter y to 
proceed, n to stop at any point.

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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