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13 questions linked to/from Wrong kernel after upgrade --- old kernel still installed?
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I have a TTY after upgrade to 16.04 [duplicate]
After upgrading from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04, I have logged into tty1 and now I have this:
Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-generic i686)
[Some more text in here]
user@localhost:~$
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Upgrading Linux Kernel 3.11 to 3.13 for Ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]
When I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04, apparently my kernel was supposed to upgrade from 3.11 to 3.13. Unfortunately, the kernel upgrade did not complete. As a result, I have several files for 3.13, but am ...
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Ubuntu distro upgrade - does it install new kernel? [duplicate]
I performed a distro upgrade via apt-get and upgrade-tool from saucy 13.10 to trusty 14.04. It seemed to go OK and the "about" now tells me I am running 14.04, however uname -a says I am running ...
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Problem with the installation of VirtualBox
I am trying to install virtualbox and make it work but it doesn't seem like I can. In the image
you can see the output.
If I run VBoxManage --version I get:
WARNING: The character device /dev/...
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14.10: VirtualBox "No suitable module for running kernel found", Cannot Find Kernel Source
After the 14.10 update to VirtualBox, I can no longer run my boxes. Of note, running sudo service virtualbox status returns VirtualBox kernel module is not loaded and running sudo service virtualbox ...
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apt-get does not find suggested package (perf tool)
I am using performance counters (https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page) on Ubuntu 13.10 x86_64. If I type perf I get:
perf not found for kernel 3.11.0-031100
You may need to install linux-...
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How to I update Ralink 5390 adapter driver via terminal?
I need to update my Ralink 5390 adapter driver and I don't know what the terminal command is. I've searched all over the net for it and I have found nothing. My wifi driver needs to be updated badly ...
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Ubuntu 13.10, kernel still 3.8.0-31-generic
I updated from 13.04 to 13.10 but uname -r still says I am on 3.8.0-31-generic.
How can i fix this and get 3.11 or 3.12 ?
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Can't install Virtualbox on 15.04
I was using Ubuntu 14.10 on my setup and I had Virtualbox running fine.
Then my OCZ Vertex 2 (SSD) died unexpectedly and I had to reinstall everything.
But, because the Intel Graphics Drivers weren'...
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Compiling Intel-phc says I don't have headers
Trying to follow an online tutorial "Intel-phc with latest kernel on Ubuntu". My ubuntu kernel version is 3.2.0-38-generic (Ubuntu 14.04). Following the instructions I downloaded kernel 3.14.2 from ...
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linux-image-generic missing - is this a problem?
After removing old and unused kernels from my wife's laptop as per this question:
What kernels & packages do I un-install?
I thought I'd do the same on my laptop, since I've been running Ubuntu ...
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How to recover from a botched attempt to clean /boot, incomplete kernel/drivers
Ubuntu 14.0.4 generated an error trying to update. Turns out my /boot partition was full. I ran a command to remove the old kernels, something like this:
dpkg --get-selections|grep 'linux-image*'|...
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Latest kernel running?
Using Ubuntu 16.04.
uname -r gives 3.13.0-77-generic, but installed latest kernel seems to be 4.4.0-62-generic, so what kernel am I running? Or, how to force to use the latest installed stable kernel?...