Hi.
I have both kernel-desktop and kernel-default installed on my laptop. Is this normal? I haven’t done anything “unusual”, the laptop is a straight installation of openSUSE 13.1 64b. As I see it I should have only kernel-desktop installed (this is the one booting).
Regards, Micke.
No.
But it is perfectly valid. You can have more than one kernel installed at a time, and you can choose which one to boot in “Advanced Options” in the boot menu.
Provided you have necessary additional kernel modules installed for both of them of course. A kmp package for kernel-desktop will not work on kernel-default and vice-versa.
I haven’t done anything “unusual”, the laptop is a straight installation of openSUSE 13.1 64b. As I see it I should have only kernel-desktop installed (this is the one booting).
Then you can just as well remove kernel-default again, as it only takes up disk space unnecessary.
If you get a conflict, please post the message for further advise. This might also explain why you have kernel-default installed as well. (it probably got pulled in by some other package)
Thanks for the reply.
I removed kernel-default using yast without any conflicts. I tried to remove kernel-default-devel but nvidia seems to have a dependency here. This might be the reason I had kernel-default installed in the first place, it might have been pulled in together with nvidia. I rebooted after removing kernel-default and all seems to work just fine.
Thanks again!
/Micke.
No.
The nvidia packages have no direct dependency on kernel-default-devel.
They require kernel-syms though (for compiling the kernel module), which in turn requires kernel-default-devel (and kernel-desktop-devel and kernel-xen-devel as well).
But those kernel-xxx-devel packages don’t have any dependency on kernel-xxx either. (otherwise you should have kernel-xen installed as well 
)
You’re not the only one that had kernel-default pulled in with the latest kernel update, btw.
It didn’t happen here though, neither on a system with radeon nor on an intel one, nor on two with the proprietary nvidia driver installed.
So I’m still not sure what really could have triggered this.
I’ve done that in the past. It isn’t a problem.
When I have done that, it is usually because I installed from live media (the live KDE, for example). If I install a 32-bit version with live media, it installs the default kernel. But then I cannot access all memory, so I install the desktop kernel.
I haven’t done that recently. Most installs have been 64-bit from the DVD installer.
It should not hurt but I have had the default pulled in here just remove it and any default NVIDIA packages