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Whenever a kernel update is available through apt update the following packages do not get installed:

(these from the latest kernel upgrade)

  • linux-headers-5.8.0-40-generic
  • linux-hwe-5.8-headers-5.8.0-40
  • linux-modules-extra-5.8.0-40-generic

I have to install them manually.

This may be related to the first kernel update to my system failing part way through because the keyutils package was not installed and I have encrypted disks. I had to manually install the missing packages.

This is a fresh install of ubuntu not and upgrade

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  • You are correct. This happened because there was a failure in the process of package upgrades. – Pilot6 Jan 21 at 14:27
  • Is linux-image-generic-hwe-20.04 installed? – Pilot6 Jan 21 at 14:29
  • Nope linux-image-generic-hwe-20.04 is not installed? – felix mason Jan 21 at 14:35
  • So this is the reason. – Pilot6 Jan 21 at 14:36
  • Superb thanks hopfully that will fix the problem – felix mason Jan 21 at 14:38
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These packages are dependencies of linux-image-generic-hwe-20.04 and linux-headers-generic-hwe-20.04 meta packages.

It is hard to tell why they are not installed, but you can fix the issue by running

sudo apt install linux-generic-hwe-20.04

It should install both meta packages.

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