I ran my usual sudo zypper up this morning, and got told that a kernel upgrade wasn’t going to be installed. Is there any way to find out why? Is this normal?
[richard@andromeda-ascendant ~]$ sudo zypper up
[sudo] password for root:
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
The following package update will NOT be installed:
kernel-default-4.6.4-2.2
Nothing to do.
What is your present kernel?
uname -a
Do you have extra repos for the kernel enabled?
zypper lr -d
[richard@andromeda-ascendant ~]$ uname -a
Linux andromeda-ascendant 4.6.4-2-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jul 19 09:07:19 UTC 2016 (8f4696b) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[richard@andromeda-ascendant ~]$ zypper lr -d
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
--+------------------+------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------
1 | repo-debug | repo-debug | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/debug |
2 | repo-non-oss | repo-non-oss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss |
3 | repo-oss | repo-oss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss |
4 | repo-src-non-oss | repo-src-non-oss | No | ---- | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/src-non-oss |
5 | repo-src-oss | repo-src-oss | No | ---- | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/src-oss |
6 | repo-update | repo-update | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/
This was an upgrade from Leap, which had packman enabled but other kernel updates have come through OK. sudo zypper dup or sudo zypper up kernel-default both offer to install. So I’ll probably try the later and see what happens when I reboot. Worst case scenario - a reinstall, which I may have to do at some point anyway as I didn’t use btrfs for my / file system. I’m still reading up on it so I have at least a basic understanding of it!
[richard@andromeda-ascendant ~]$ sudo zypper up kernel-default
[sudo] password for root:
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
The following NEW package is going to be installed:
kernel-default-4.6.4-2.2
The following package is going to be REMOVED:
kernel-default-4.6.4-2.1
1 new package to install, 1 to remove.
Overall download size: 49.8 MiB. Already cached: 0 B. No additional space will be used or freed after the operation.
Continue? [y/n/? shows all options] (y):
On TW I don’t use “zypper up” but rather “zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change”.
Well, that seemed to work OK.