utopic development 14.10: kernel = 3.13?

[ivo-welch]

I just folded space to gnome ubuntu 14.10 (with update-manager -d), well yesterday, presumably with enough delay for the beta to trickle to my archives. I now see

# cat /etc/*release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=utopic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch)"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="14.10 (Utopic Unicorn)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch)"
VERSION_ID="14.10"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"

# cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.13.0-35-generic (buildd@panlong) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) ) #62-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 15 01:58:42 UTC 2014

I am surprised by two aspects: first, that it tells me I am running the development branch, but not that I am running the beta. second, that I am running kernel 3.13. I thought 14.10 was switched to kernel 3.16. (I am having some trouble with an AMD card driving two monitors, one of which is 4K, so I want to try the later kernels.)

/iaw

[grahammechanical]

Let me confuse you even more. Ubuntu does not have alpha and beta version any more. The flavours do but not Ubuntu. Furthermore, whether it is alpha 1 or beta 2 or release candidate, they are all development branch and that is what the "release" file will read until the OS officially becomes 14.10.

You can try

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

and see what that gets you and then try

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Regards.

[Ian_Worrall]

Funny, mine is currently installing 3.16.0-12. Have you rebooted since upgrading?

[ivo-welch]

nothing...what kernel is 14.10 development supposed to be on now?

[Elfy]

3.16.0-12

[ivo-welch]

then there must be something wrong with the updater. I am looking at my /boot/ directory, and it contains only vmlinuz-3.13.0-35-generic. so, it ain't a reboot problem.

dpkg -l | grep linux-image-
rc  linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic               3.13.0-32.57                             amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
rc  linux-image-3.13.0-34-generic               3.13.0-34.60                             amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-3.13.0-35-generic               3.13.0-35.62                             amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP

but I am running 14.10 on the amd64 architecture. this was ascertained by the etc release as well as obviously newer versions of other utilities (e.g., fdisk is now colorized).

is there a 14.10 manifest that would allow me to check what packages there should be in it, and a utility to compare the official manifest with what I currently have installed?

/iaw

[ivo-welch]

this may do it:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...alled-packages

[ivo-welch]

definitely a broken updater. I have a long update log, but it omitted updating 736 out of 2115 files.

so update-manager -d on gnome-ubuntu is flawed.

fresh install needed.

/iaw

[arthur-widetschek]

same problem with ubuntu and kubuntu.
upgrade from 14.04 to 14.10 (sudo do-release-upgrade --devel).
got kernel 3.13
will there be any bugfix. i don't want to do an fresh install every six month...

[craig10x]

@arthur: did you do the updates after you did your upgrade? Just wondering, because i recall when i upgraded from 13.10 to 14.04, initially, the 13.10 kernel was installed but the when i did the updates afterward, the current 14.04 kernel was installed...if you did not, then i would say it says like a bug, as you mentioned...