Re: Kernel panic with linux-headers-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 03:33:40PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 09:49 +0100, Nick White wrote:
> > I had been running linux-headers-3.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 for the last
> > week without problems. Last night I upgraded to
> > linux-headers-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64, and was sad to find this morning
> > that it panics early into the boot (I believe when loading the
> > kernel, not the initramfs).
>
> You mean linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 and -0.bpo.2-amd64.
I did, apologies for the misinformation.
> > A related question (I'm new to Debian) - why does
> > apt-get dist-upgrade remove my previous kernel when upgrading? It
> > caused considerably more annoyance to get my box back up when I
> > found the new kernel wasn't co-operative.
>
> It isn't supposed to do that and I've never seen it do that. (If there
> is no ABI bump i.e. package name change, the new version replaces the
> old. But in this case, there was such a change.)
In that case possibly this was a case of me being overzealous
yesterday evening. I don't remember doing that, but my memory is
known to be staggeringly imperfect.
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