Re: problem upgrading kernel - version mismatch

On 08/01/15 12:52, [email protected] wrote:
>>>>>> "David" == David  <[email protected]> writes:
> David> Ubuntu 12.04 SERVER (no gui) I've run into this error and don't
> David> want to make the problem worse:
>
> Try
> 	apt-get update
> 	apt-get -f install
>
>
> to resolve dependencies (it may be there's a newer linux-serverimage
> to fetch and install, that won't have the problem).
>
> If this fails, you can install just that package, so you can can
> complete the upgrade, with
> 	 dpk -i --force-depends-version /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-server-image-*dpkg
>
> Then do an
>       apt-get -f install
>
> to fix the fallout.
>


thanks, but <apt-get -f install> failed. One of those circular 
dependency problems.

In case anyone stumbles on this thread, I ended up simply doing

#apt-get remove linux-server
#apt-get install linux-server

That was a pretty scary thing to do - remove "linux-server"??? - but it 
works. Linux-server is just a housekeeping meta package, even though 
it's description says  that it is the kernel.

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