[clue] argh! foraging kernel upgrades!

Carl Richell carl at system76.com
Fri Oct 26 16:25:53 MDT 2012


Just catching this thread so disregard if resolved. We've seen this with 
12.10. Linux headers is uninstalled causing the breakage. IMHO 
linux-image should have linux-headers as a dependency for the desktop 
version at least. This should fix it:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

Carl

On 10/26/2012 04:19 PM, David L. Willson wrote:
> I disagree. Remembering back to the custom-compiled nvidia days, when ~that~ was what was breaking on every kernel upgrade. I don't think it ~is~ easy to fix.
>
> And actually, they sort of have fixed it. Vmware survives most kernel upgrades now, just the big ones take me out, like 12.04 to 12.10.
>
> --
> David L. Willson
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>
> This is a good time for a r3VOLution.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> David L. Willson wrote:
>>> If you have something that breaks every, or almost every, time you
>>> update your kernel, like I
>>> have VMware Workstation, and you're ruining Ubuntu, you may find
>>> these changes help fuel.
>> You should complain (to VMWare).  You paid for the privilege and it's
>> easy for them to fix that. :-)
>>
>> Dave
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