apt-get upgrade security question

[city]

Can someone tell me how I can get the two remaining packages to be installed, get installed:

The following packages have been kept back:
linux-image-386 linux-restricted-modules-386
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

I'm stuck :confused:

thanks

city

[towsonu2003]

I had a similar concern about this and posted this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=597406#post597406 . I did not yet upgrade (waiting for replies) but I believe your problem is that linux-restricted-modules package was not upgradable. Usually, when you upgrade your kernel, linux-386 gets updated. linux-386 is a meta package that depends on linux-image and linux-restricted-modules. But from what I see in synaptic, this time only the linux-image (and linux-headers) gets upgraded, not the linux-restricted-modules.

Did you reboot after upgrading? Did any of the hardware not work if you rebooted? (kernel upgrade is effective after rebooting to the new kernel.

PS. I suppose linux-restricted-modules are drivers that are none-free. So if you did not reboot yet and after rebooting any of your hardware (or your gnome -desktop-) fails to work, just reboot and select your old kernel from your grub list. In case you end up in the command line (ie desktop does not come up-> black screen with "login:") and you don't have any info on linux, to reboot, you will give sudo reboot

PS. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade is only for upgrading to a new version of ubuntu (like, for examp[le, from hoary to breezy, from 5.10 to 6.40 etc) and may break your system.

[fakier]

apt-get install linux-image-386
apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-386
or together: apt-get install linux-image-386 linux-restricted-modules-386

[Gustav]

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
will probably install your packages