3.0.0-15 installed but ubuntu server boots to 3.0.0-14

[plasmafusion]

hi all.
noticed some odd behaviour with my headerless 11.04 server.
3.0.0-16-generic (as of 13/2/12) is installed and shows in grub's menu.lst but when the machine boots it uses 3.0.0-14-generic.
any ideas as to what might be causing this?
cheers.

[Wayne_V]

run 'dpkg --status linux-generic' and make sure it is installed ok.

then check /boot/grub/menu.lst and see what the default kernel selection is.

[plasmafusion]

hey.
thanks for your reply.
'dpkg --status linux-generic' reports that 3.0.0.15.17 is installed correctly.
in menu.lst '3.0.0-15-generic' is the first choice after ## ## End Default Options ##.
hmmm.

[Wayne_V]

is 'default' set to 0 then in menu.lst?

[plasmafusion]

'## default num'?
yes it is.
'default 0'

[Wayne_V]

then I would try to reboot and watch what happens.

[plasmafusion]

i'm afraid it's a remote box that i don't have physical access to. no monitor attached to it either.
wonder if the logs will shine any light on it.
thanks for your time.

[Wayne_V]

are you sure it has been rebooted since the newest kernel was installed then? what does 'uptime' say?

[plasmafusion]

i rebooted it twice this afternoon...grudgingly no change in the kernel version.

[Wayne_V]

Can you post your menu.lst?

I would also check /var/log/apt/term.log and history.log and /var/log/dpkg.log to see if anything went wrong during the update.

May as well do 'apt-get update / apt-get dist-upgrade' as well again too.