Depends: libc6 (>= 2.38) but 2.35-0ubuntu3.8 is installed

[tengerye]

Similar error has been posted on this forum, unfortunately, the solutions to them could not help me.

The version of my OS is (lsb_release -a):

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Release:	22.04
Codename:	jammy

When I execute (sudo apt upgrade), I got the following:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-headers-6.5.0-060500-generic : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.38) but 2.35-0ubuntu3.8 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

I also tried to execute: (sudo apt install -f libc6=2.35-0ubuntu3.8 libc-bin=2.35-0ubuntu3.8), but still got:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
libc-bin is already the newest version (2.35-0ubuntu3.8).
libc-bin set to manually installed.
libc6 is already the newest version (2.35-0ubuntu3.8).
libc6 set to manually installed.
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-headers-6.5.0-060500-generic : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.38) but 2.35-0ubuntu3.8 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Thank you in advance.

[Bashing-om]

Hello tengerye - Welcome to the forum.

That kernel/header is old; current is:

6.8.0.44.44.1~22.04.1

Which leads to the question of what kernel you are presently booting and the headers that are installed.
Please show us the outputs of terminal commands - between code tags:

uname -r
ls -al /usr/src/

code tag tutorial:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...8#post12776168
and let us consider removing 6.5.0-060500-generic.

-One way forward-

[tengerye]

Thank you so much.

The output of command: (uname -r) is:

6.5.0-41-generic

The output command of (ls -al /usr/src/) is:

drwxr-xr-x  8 root root 4096 10月 11 20:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096  2月 21  2024 ..
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 10月 11 20:58 linux-headers-6.5.0-060500
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4096 10月 11 20:58 linux-headers-6.5.0-060500-generic
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4096  7月  7 10:21 linux-headers-6.5.0-41-generic
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4096 10月 10 11:13 linux-headers-6.8.0-45-generic
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096  7月  7 10:21 linux-hwe-6.5-headers-6.5.0-41
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 10月 10 11:13 linux-hwe-6.8-headers-6.8.0-45

My ultimate goal is to install NVIDIA CUDA on my Ubuntu. According to their lates instruction (https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-in...n-guide-linux/), they support the version 5.15.0-102.

May I ask what is next please?

[Bashing-om]

tengerye hummm -

My ultimate goal is to install NVIDIA CUDA on my Ubuntu. According to their lates instruction (https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-in...n-guide-linux/), they support the version 5.15.0-102.

Now that is something I have no experience with and know nothing about -
However
As you do say - version 5.15.0-102 -
then you would, if that is the case, install Focal - release 20.04 !
see:
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?k...es&section=all

Depending on what you find out and what you want to do is what is to be done next.

which way did he go, George

[tengerye]

Thank you for your help.

May I ask, if I would like to keep kernel 6.8.0. Should I delete everything except kernel linux-headers-6.8.0-45-generic and linux-hwe-6.8-headers-6.8.0-45?

[Bashing-om]

tengerye

If you desire to remain on this current install we need to find out why you are not booting the latest kernel - and of course fix that old header dependency issue. Generally speaking we want to keep the latest kernel and one other as a fall back.
If one keeps latest and the one under it --- then "autoremove" will do the housecleaning for us.

-here to help-

[tengerye]

I tried to switch to 6.8.0, but still can install nothing.
My command (uname -r) is:

6.8.0-45-generic

And I tried this command: sudo apt install make, but I got:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
make is already the newest version (4.3-4.1build1).
make set to manually installed.
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-headers-6.5.0-060500-generic : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.38) but 2.35-0ubuntu3.8 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Then I tried: sudo apt --fix-broken install
but I got:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... failed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-headers-6.5.0-060500-generic : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.38) but 2.35-0ubuntu3.8 is installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies

[Bashing-om]

tengerye; Good -

in that you are booting the 6.8.0-45 HWE kernel.
Next we need to know what is going on with the libc6 package in order to purge no longer wanted kernels.

show us:

apt policy libc6
ls -al /boot/

libc6 should be version 2.35-0ubuntu3.8 in jammy:
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?k...es&section=all

see what we are going to do here

[deadflowr]

Try

sudo dpkg --purge --force-all linux-headers-6.5.0-060500-generic

[tengerye]

Thank you so much.

My command: apt policy libc6

libc6:
  Installed: 2.35-0ubuntu3.8
  Candidate: 2.35-0ubuntu3.8
  Version table:
 *** 2.35-0ubuntu3.8 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

My command: ls -al /boot/

drwxr-xr-x  5 root root     4096 10月 11 20:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root     4096  5月 18 08:50 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   278502  8月 28  2023 config-6.5.0-060500-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   280657  6月  3 18:09 config-6.5.0-41-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   287058  9月 11 21:33 config-6.8.0-45-generic
drwx------  4 root root     4096  1月  1  1970 efi
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root     4096 10月 11 22:42 grub
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       31 10月 11 20:58 initrd.img -> initrd.img-6.5.0-060500-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 70920863 10月 11 20:58 initrd.img-6.5.0-060500-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 71014197 10月 10 11:15 initrd.img-6.5.0-41-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 72026141 10月 10 11:15 initrd.img-6.8.0-45-generic
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       27 10月 11 20:58 initrd.img.old -> initrd.img-6.8.0-45-generic
drwx------  2 root root    16384  5月 18 08:48 lost+found
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   182800  2月  7  2022 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   184476  2月  7  2022 memtest86+.elf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   184980  2月  7  2022 memtest86+_multiboot.bin
-rw-------  1 root root  8221682  8月 28  2023 System.map-6.5.0-060500-generic
-rw-------  1 root root  8268513  6月  3 18:09 System.map-6.5.0-41-generic
-rw-------  1 root root  8657806  9月 11 21:33 System.map-6.8.0-45-generic
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       28 10月 11 20:58 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-6.5.0-060500-generic
-rw-------  1 root root 14088704  8月 28  2023 vmlinuz-6.5.0-060500-generic
-rw-------  1 root root 14271496  6月  3 18:10 vmlinuz-6.5.0-41-generic
-rw-------  1 root root 14911880  9月 11 21:59 vmlinuz-6.8.0-45-generic
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       24 10月 11 20:58 vmlinuz.old -> vmlinuz-6.8.0-45-generic