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Perfect. Thanks.

Update. It did work in that the machine with the latest non-free Nvidia drivers properly boots with an '18 kernel.
Then, I was able to go to the "Other" tab in MX Tweak and uncheck auto update to put a hold on updates on Debian kernels. I verified that it remains unchecked, even after booting ...

Awesome. Thank you.

To disambiguate the English language a little bit I'd like to ask the following. I see that there has been an announcement for the non-free NVidia drivers. They are now compatible with the '18 kernel. I thought the announcement I was waiting for was one for a new kernel which was to be compatible ...

Thank you. I ran that and indeed I see as unchecked the entry for the Debian 64 bit default kernel auto updates meta package in the MX Package Installer.

I'll be looking for your announcement.

failed 6.1.0-18 kernel update.txt
I have added an option to disable/enable kernel auto-updating when the metapackages are installed. It uses apt-mark hold/unhold rather than removing the metpackages.


I do see this option on a first system where updates succeeded, including the update to kernel ...