22.04 LTS stuck on old kernel from March 2024

[vw16v]

I've been stuck on this old kernel for a long time now. I was having issues with software updater crashing for a while but that's been fixed. I just had software updater run and without issues. I also have the Ubuntu Pro extended security updates enabled.

Linux yoga9i 6.5.0-26-generic #26~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Mar 12 10:22:43 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
uname -r
6.5.0-26-generic

I've ran sudo apt update followed by sudo apt upgrade also. I'm not sure why I'm stuck on this old kernel and debating on upgrading to 24.04. Any ideas? I also followed a youtube post for manually updating the kernel. But after I manually updated the kernel to a newer release and rebooted it broke my bluetooth and possible other things so I rolled back. Thanks for any help.

[deadflowr]

Do you still have the required kernel meta packages to upgrade kernels?

dpkg -l | grep hwe-22.04

I use the term meta very loosely because technically I guess it's not, but the description of meta is probably the best way to describe it.

[vw16v]

It doesn't look like I do because if I run>
dpkg -l | grep hwe-22.04
It returns nothing. Thanks for any more help.

[jeremy31]

sudo apt install linux-generic-hwe-22.04

See if that works

[vw16v]

sudo apt install linux-generic-hwe-22.04

See if that works

Awesome! That worked. I ran that and it installed the old kernels or images or something. Then I rebooted and ran updater and it installed the kernel from June 2024! Thanks for the help deadflowr & jeremy31! I would give you guys kudos but I'm not seeing the button right now.

 sudo apt install linux-generic-hwe-22.04[sudo] password for : 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  amd64-microcode intel-microcode iucode-tool linux-headers-6.5.0-44-generic linux-headers-generic-hwe-22.04 linux-hwe-6.5-headers-6.5.0-44 linux-image-6.5.0-44-generic
  linux-image-generic-hwe-22.04 linux-modules-6.5.0-44-generic linux-modules-extra-6.5.0-44-generic thermald
Suggested packages:
  fdutils linux-doc | linux-hwe-6.5-source-6.5.0 linux-hwe-6.5-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  amd64-microcode intel-microcode iucode-tool linux-generic-hwe-22.04 linux-headers-6.5.0-44-generic linux-headers-generic-hwe-22.04 linux-hwe-6.5-headers-6.5.0-44
  linux-image-6.5.0-44-generic linux-image-generic-hwe-22.04 linux-modules-6.5.0-44-generic linux-modules-extra-6.5.0-44-generic thermald
0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 140 MB of archives.
After this operation, 739 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

After reboot and running software updater.

Linux yoga9i 6.5.0-44-generic #44~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Jun 18 14:36:16 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linuxuname -r
6.5.0-44-generic