[plug] Debian kernel upgrade (was Re: symbolic links)

[Laurie Anderson]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:07:45 +0800
Nick Bannon <nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:32:24AM +0800, Laurie Anderson wrote:
> >   Good morning well at least the weather is pretty good,
> >   Have done everything Onno has recommended but still am no closer to solving the problem
> 
> What problem is that?
> 
> Onno recommended something like this - what output did you get when you
> tried it?:
>   cd /
>   ln -s /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1-k7 vmlinuz
>   ln -s /boot/initrd.img-2.4.22-1-k7 initrd.img
>   lilo -v
> 


   the output came out as follows
   /bin/sh: /lib/ld-linux,so.2: version 'GLIB_PRIVATE' not found (required by /target/lib/libc.so.6)


> >   about the only thing I didn't do was to remove the following from /boot
> >   System.map-2.2.20-idepci, System.map-2.4.18bf2.4, config-2.2.20-idepci, config-2.4.18bf2.4
> >   vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci, vmslinuz-2.4.18bf2.4.
> >   Is that important???, based on what Onno has said it should not matter.
> [...]
> 
> No, it's not necessary to remove the old kernels. Leave them there
> until you're sure the new one is working properly. Run "uname -a" to
> find out what version you're currently using. When you're ready to
> remove an old one, use "aptitude" or another packaging tool (dpkg,
> apt-get) to do it.
> 
> Nick.
> 

  ran uname -a
  Linux (none) 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown

  Refer to my original Plug e-mail of sunday Dec 28 this may help
  Followed Onno Benschop's recommendation from then on.
 
  When I updated to 2.4.18-bf2.4 everything ran fairly smoothly but not this time.

  Thanks

  Laurie