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Upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 LTS custom kernel to support DELLR720
It would be very helpful, if somebody already knows way to upgrade 10.04 LTS custom kernel to support DELLR720.
I am having hard time with setup. I used this,
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ubuntu 12.04 kernel upgrade 3.2.0-43 failed to install
I run 12.04 on my laptop, tried to upgrade from 3.2.0-41 to 3.2.0-43.
Got stuck at 62% with the cpu to 70% forever.
After like 30 minutes I quit the upgrade and retired with similar results.
Then I ...
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How to upgrade 12.04.2 kernel and HWE to raring?
As the topic states I want to upgrade my 12.04.2 to newest raring lts kernel and HWE.
Now I have:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.02 LTS isn't upgrading beyond 3.2.0-41-generic [duplicate]
I have notice recently that a lot of my Ubuntu 12 LTS servers are unable to pull down kernels past 3.2. Some servers I have been able to pull 3.5 by going into the GUI and use the updater from there ...
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Can/Should I upgrade my Linux kernel from Precise 12.04.2 to Raring 13.04?
I'm running 12.04.2 through regular updates. Installed 12.04.1. After 12.04.2 was released I made an upgrade of XServer & Linux kernel. So now I'm running Precise with Quantal kernel and XServer.
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Unable to start VMWare Workstation after upgrade to 13.04
After upgrading to 13.04 I am unable to start VMWorkstation. I get the following message:
Before you can run VMware, several modules must be compiled and loaded
into the running kernel.
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How to get kernel versions to match in a server and clients?
Ubuntu has released 12.04.2 LTS, which has a newer kernel than the one that comes with 12.04.1 LTS.
I prefer to keep server and clients with the same kernel version. Can this be done?
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Why do I have different kernel versions on same distribution version
I (re)installed Mythbuntu 12.04.2 to solve an audio problem. After the installation I find that the kernel version of this MythTV front-end is 3.5.0-27-generic.
However on the fully-updated ...
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How to Upgrade Kernel Version?
My question is how to upgrade kernel versions for Ubuntu 12.04?
My computer specifications are:
Ubuntu 12.04
Kernel Version Linux 3.2.0-40-generic AMD Processor
64 bit processor.
I have ...
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upgrade has a problem
when I use:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
I get this:
Setting up rsyslog (5.8.6-1ubuntu9.1) ...
dpkg: error processing rsyslog (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned ...
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LXDE is not starting after upgrading to 3.5.0-26-generic kernel
I've upgraded my Lubuntu distribution to the 3.5.0-26-generic kernel and after rebooting, LXDE is not starting up anymore. I had to revert to 3.5.0-25-generic, which still works. Any suggestions on ...
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what if I install the latest linux-image-generic package?
I'm using the latest stable kernel (3.8.3) from kernel ppa but my linux-image-generic package seems to be outdated (3.5.x) . I'm using quantal. noticed a linux-image-generic version 3.8.0 in raring ...
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apt-get has a error [duplicate]
when I use:
sudo apt-get upgrade
I get this Error:
E: Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2: No such file or directory)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or ...
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Tried to install a Kernel, now i have mutliple problems!
I tried to upgrade the kernal to 3.8.2 but it didn't work. So after learning that 3.8 wouldn't work with bumblebee I tried to go back and install 3.5.25. It still didn't work.
uname -r says: ...
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Failed Kernel install results in apt and dpkg failure due to dependencies and configuration issues
I have seen some similar questions but none that I have seen have resolved my issue. An error occured durring a kernel upgrade on Ubuntu 12.04 from linux-image-3.2.0-36-generic to ...
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ubuntu 10.0.4 gives kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) while booting
I recently installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my desktop and in the upgrades menu I selected upgrade to ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, but after installing it restarted it is giving me this error:
[ 0.694063] ...
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Why does Ubuntu not boot into a 3.4-Kernel?
I just need to install kernel 3.4 (or higher stable version) on my machine (with 8GB RAM) running Ubuntu 11.10. I did the following steps:
I downloaded the following DEB files:
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Slower Wifi after update to kernel 3.8
I updated my Ubuntu 12.10 (kernel 3.7.9) to kernel 3.8 and noticed that my wifi connection from 150Mbps went to 72.2 Mbps.
Can someone help me to solve it ?
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What is the technical reason preventing a simple upgrade (non-destructive) from 32 to 64-bit?
I was under the impression that upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit required a new kernel. This would mean replacing the kernel is all that would be needed. Perhaps drivers and libraries need to be ...
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How do I upgrade the kernel?
I have to upgrade to the new 3.7 kernel from 3.5 on Ubuntu 12.10 (3.5.0-24-generic kernel default) while also leaving the previously installed kernels and allow their optional selection during the ...
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How can I upgrade the Ubuntu 12.04.2 kernel to 3.5.0-23?
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04.2 64-bit on my desktop PC and I see the kernel in System Monitor is 3.5.0-23 but in Ubuntu 12.04.2 in my laptop the kernel is 3.2.0-38.
I have already tried to run the ...
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Ubuntu not booting after updating to 12.10
I'm using Ubuntu for a few months, installed on a laptop where I also have win7, but there are different installations, different drives. Today I've tried my first Ubuntu upgrade, from 12.04 to 12.10
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How does updating the kernel affect custom modules?
I am curious as to what happens when you run
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
if you have custom kernel modules installed.
Are there hooks to reinstall your custom module? Are ...
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Why do I need to re-load kernel modules for virtualbox after a kernel update?
After the last kernel upgrade in Ubuntu 12.10 I had to manually re-load two kernel modules for Virtualbox.
modprobe vboxdrv and modprobe vboxnetflt
I don't know enough about the system to say if ...
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How can I install Ubuntu's 10.10 kernel I Ubuntu 12.10?
I did use Ubuntu 10.10 for a long time, and now I replaced it with Ubuntu 12.10, every thing works great, but I do have one little problem, which is with my wireless card.
On Ubuntu 10.10, it worked ...
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Trouble after Ubuntu 12.10 upgrade
Over night I tried to upgrade to (k)ubuntu 12.10. Unfortunately kdm (neither lightdm) doesn't show up after boot. I found several posts describing errors due to the migration from kdm to lightdm. Some ...
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Samsung nc110 crashes with Ubuntu 12.10 and specific kernel [closed]
My Samsung nc110 worked just fine with Ubuntu 12.04 installed, but updating the kernel to 3.5 and upgrading Ubuntu to 12.10 caused Xs to crash.
How to solve this?
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Linux Kernel not upgraded (from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10) - can't remove old kernels and can't install new apps
Question:
How do I remove old kernel images which refuse to be removed?
Context:
Yesterday I upgraded Ubuntu from 12.04 to 12.10.
However, the linux kernel has not upgraded from 3.2 to 3.5 as I ...
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Kernel error on VMWare after upgrading to 12.10 from 12.04
I upgraded to 12.10 from 12.04. I have removed the old kernel 3.2.21 in 12.04.
On start up, I get an error before login, such as vmware ....
In 12.04, I have installed VMware 9.0 and now in 12.10, ...
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Linux kernel not upgraded from 3.2.x to 3.5.x after Ubuntu upgrade from 12.04 LTS to 12.10 (through 12.10 beta)
I had upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 beta from 12.04 LTS. I kept updating every recommended update suggested by Software Updater. All updates were successful.
Yesterday, 12.10 stable is formally released ...
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dist-update kernel failed?
I run:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
, and the linux kernel seemed to be updated to 3.2.0-31-generic successfully.
However, after I rebooted, I typed:
uname -a
, it showed :
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Failing to upgrade to linux-image-3.0.0-26-generic
When I try to upgrade linux-image-3.0.0-26-generic I get following problems:
dpkg-deb (subprocess): data: internal bzip2 read error: 'DATA_ERROR'
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess <decompress> ...
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How do I make Ubuntu go past the splash screen?
I recently upgraded my desktop mac to Precise and now can't get past the Ubuntu 12.04 splash page. The splash freezes with Ubuntu and the dots turning from white to orange forever.
This is when I ...
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How do I handle “Firmware file X not found” stopping bootup?
I recently upgraded my desktop mac to Precise and now can't get past the Ubuntu 12.04 splash page. The splash freezes with
[ 19.931097] b32-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode16_mimo.fw" not ...
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How can I ensure I am running the current stock kernel?
At some point, I installed a new kernel, for no particular purpose but to try.
I am having some problems, and would like to ensure that they are not caused by the kernel I installed.
How can I ...
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Can't use mouse and screen res changed after updating kernel?
In an effort to fix problems which I was having with 12.04 on the stock kernel, I had updated to v3.5.1-quantal successfully in terminal from the following official website:
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Do all updates, even kernel, take affect without rebooting
I use 11.04.
When I upgrade a package, it shows a message similar to this :
Unpacking replacement libkrb5support0 ...
Preparing to replace libgssrpc4 1.8.3+dfsg-5ubuntu2.2 (using ...
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Should I upgrade to the “mainline” kernels?
Newer "mainline" versions of the kernel are available from the Ubuntu kernel team, e.g. 3.4 and 3.5, while Ubuntu 12.04 is on 3.2.
What are the mainline kernels?
Are they better than my existing ...
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Are gcc versions tied to kernel versions?
Is there any link between gcc versions and the version of a kernel ? Specifically, would I be able to install a very old version of gcc onto the latest kernel. Alternatively would I be able to build ...
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Can't upgrade kernel from 3.2.0-24
Every time I try to upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 x64 kernel 3.2.0-24, I get errors that I can't seem to fix. I've tried creating lists files and unchecking all of the options in "Software Sources" ...
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Kernel error during upgrade due to “/etc/default/grub: Syntax error: newline unexpected”
Summary: linux-image-3.5.0-2-generic upgrade to linux-image-3.5.0-3-generic
The default Ubuntu 12.04 update is generating the following error for weeks (the link below).
Obs.: I'm using default ...
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Lucid hangs at booting after kernel upgrade
This weekend, one of our servers running Lucid has installed some upgrades:
libgcrypt11 1.4.4-5ubuntu2.1
linux-firmware 1.34.14
linux-image-2.6.32-41-generic 2.6.32-41.91
linux-libc-dev 2.6.32-41.91
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nvidia driver problems after upgrading to 3.2.0-26 on Ubuntu 12.04 64bit [closed]
After installing latest updates I can't set screen resolution higher than 1024x768; every time after the boot I get a message
Could not apply the stored configuration for the monitors
(Note: ...
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My upgrade always crash in the same part [closed]
this was the third time i tried to upgrade my system using the do-release-update|upgrade command and always crashes in the same point:
[19595.054095] [<x1566c7e>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
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Why did Unity stop working after I upgraded to the 3.4.3 mainline kernel?
I installed the latest Linux kernel (3.4.3). After rebooting, it says I am in Ubuntu 2D. How do I either go back to my previous kernel, or fix this problem? Thanks.
$ uname -r
3.4.3-030403-generic
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How to fix “apt-get upgrade” errors?
I get these errors when I try to upgrade the packages installed on my Ubuntu system:
m@m-desktop ~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state ...
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How do I upgrade my kernel on the Rackspace Cloud?
I'm running servers on the Rackspace Cloud -- the first-generation one, not the next-generation Open Stack one. I believe it's running Xen for the hypervisor.
I use the stock images from Rackspace. I ...
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How do I correctly upgrade the kernel on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS?
I'm trying to upgrade the linux kernel from 2.6.32-34 to the latest update of that series, which appears to be 2.6.32-34.
I ran:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
At this point i was ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 fail to upgrade to kernel 3.4
Last night i intended to upgrade my kernel from 3.2 0-24 to 3.4...
I followed the instruction on this Can I install Linux kernel 3.4 in Ubuntu and Kubuntu 12.04?.
First i downloaded the kernel deb ...
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'Your application encountered “kernel panic on reboot…”' error after an upgrade from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 [closed]
Description
ldconfig command unlinks the existing system loader ld-linux.so that is linked to /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so which also creates symlink to 3rd party loader that resides in ...
