Why am I stuck in 6.1.0-12 kernel [Solved]

[figueroa]

@MikeR, apt upgrade won't upgrade the kernel or kernel headers at this time. Had you run apt full-upgrade, apt would have offered to upgrade both the kernel and headers.

I suggest you use "apt-get -s full-upgrade" which will "simulate" the upgrade process. This will let you SEE in advance what will be upgraded without any pressure to pull the trigger. If it offers you 6.1.0.15, you may want to wait as 6.1.0.15 has caused some users problems with their ext4 file systems.

ADDED: Why don't you just use the updater in the panel?

[asqwerth]

good catch, @figueroa .

@MikeR

In fact,
sudo apt update is equivalent to the reloading of package lists in Synaptic.

you should be typing UPGRADE, not UPDATE.

But take note:
sudo apt upgrade will only upgrade packages that don't involve the installing (or removal) of additional packages to facilitate the upgrade.

If you want your upgrade to be able to install additional packages (in this case, latest kernels/headers in the 6.1 series), you need

sudo apt full-upgrade

[MikeR]

@Stevo

$ apt policy linux-source-6.1
linux-source-6.1:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 6.1.66-1
Version table:
6.1.66-1 500
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main i386 Packages
6.1.55-1 500
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main i386 Packages

using eyeball-diff, not quite the same as your result.

@figueroa

$ sudo apt-get -s full-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

ADDED: Why don't you just use the updater in the panel?

Actually, I do, but that only shows when there are impending updates (IIRC)

@asqwerth

sudo apt full-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Thank you all for your efforts.
What is your opinion of the possibility that I install 6.1.0-13 from MX Package Installer --> Enabled Repos --> linux-image-6.1.0-13-amd64 ?

Mike

[MXRobo]

Not sure, but FYI R-Click on green updater box avails:
Upgrade with Snynaptic
also,
Preferences - GUI
full upgrade (recommended)
basic upgrade
update automatically (will not add new or remove existing packages), assume it's sudo apt upgrade.

Not absolutely sure what basic upgrade does, maybe add equivalent command in parenthesis? - thought?

Others with more knowledge, but I'm guessing they'll agree that it's fine IF it's not a kernel that is causing problems.

Also, once you get what you want installed, either figueroa's method with simulate, or via the one of the later two? MX-Updater>Preferences options, I'd change it back to the recommended once this issue it resolved by Debian of the devs.

fugueroa's method seems to be the better one, although I've not use simulate yet.

[Charlie Brown]

@MikeR If I'm not missing something you didn't reply/check this (which's responsible of auto-upgrading job for the default kernel):

... but do you have the metapackages installed, or did you somehow delete them?
linux-image-amd64
linux-headers-amd64

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apt list linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64

If the output is like this (without [installed] )

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Listing... Done
linux-headers-amd64/stable 6.1.66-1 amd64
linux-image-amd64/stable 6.1.66-1 amd64

just install them:

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sudo apt update ; sudo apt install linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64 -y

now you can either use the MX Updater, or apt / apt-get / aptitude , even nala:

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sudo nala upgrade

[Stevo]

At this point, 6.1.66 is known to cause wi-fi problems for a host of users, so I would hold off any updates until you see 6.1.67 available, which should be very soon.

If you don't use wi-fi, you could go ahead with the updates.

[MikeR]

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[MikeR]

@Charlie Brown

$ apt list linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64
Listing... Done
linux-headers-amd64/stable-updates 6.1.67-1 amd64 [residual-config]
linux-image-amd64/stable-updates 6.1.67-1 amd64 [residual-config]

As I didn't understand the 'residual-config' bit, I decided to continue with the rest of your advice:
(Very long quote follows)

$ sudo apt update ; sudo apt install linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64 -y
[sudo] password for mike:
Hit:1 http://it.mxrepo.com/mx/repo bookworm InRelease
Hit:2 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:3 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
apparmor linux-headers-6.1.0-16-amd64 linux-headers-6.1.0-16-common
linux-image-6.1.0-16-amd64
Suggested packages:
apparmor-profiles-extra apparmor-utils linux-doc-6.1 debian-kernel-handbook
The following NEW packages will be installed:
apparmor linux-headers-6.1.0-16-amd64 linux-headers-6.1.0-16-common
linux-headers-amd64 linux-image-6.1.0-16-amd64 linux-image-amd64
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 80.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 472 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 apparmor amd64 3.0.8-3 [616 kB]
Get:2 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates/main amd64 linux-headers-6.1.0-16-common all 6.1.67-1 [9,928 kB]
Get:3 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates/main amd64 linux-headers-6.1.0-16-amd64 amd64 6.1.67-1 [1,289 kB]
Get:4 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates/main amd64 linux-headers-amd64 amd64 6.1.67-1 [1,420 B]
Get:5 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates/main amd64 linux-image-6.1.0-16-amd64 amd64 6.1.67-1 [68.7 MB]
Get:6 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates/main amd64 linux-image-amd64 amd64 6.1.67-1 [1,476 B]
Fetched 80.6 MB in 3min 4s (438 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package apparmor.
(Reading database ... 326678 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../0-apparmor_3.0.8-3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking apparmor (3.0.8-3) ...
Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-6.1.0-16-common.
Preparing to unpack .../1-linux-headers-6.1.0-16-common_6.1.67-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking linux-headers-6.1.0-16-common (6.1.67-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-6.1.0-16-amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../2-linux-headers-6.1.0-16-amd64_6.1.67-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-headers-6.1.0-16-amd64 (6.1.67-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../3-linux-headers-amd64_6.1.67-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-headers-amd64 (6.1.67-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-6.1.0-16-amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../4-linux-image-6.1.0-16-amd64_6.1.67-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-image-6.1.0-16-amd64 (6.1.67-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../5-linux-image-amd64_6.1.67-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-image-amd64 (6.1.67-1) ...
Setting up linux-image-6.1.0-16-amd64 (6.1.67-1) ...
I: /vmlinuz.old is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-12-amd64
I: /initrd.img.old is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-12-amd64
I: /vmlinuz is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-16-amd64
I: /initrd.img is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-16-amd64
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms:
dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 6.1.0-16-amd64.
/usr/sbin/dkms.mx autoinstall --kernelver 6.1.0-16-amd64
Deprecated feature: MODULES_CONF (/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821ce/5.5.2.1+git20230504/source/dkms.conf)
grep: /lib/modules/6.1.0-12-amd64/build/.config: No such file or directory
Deprecated feature: MODULES_CONF (/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821ce/5.5.2.1+git20230504/source/dkms.conf)
Deprecated feature: MODULES_CONF (/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821ce/5.5.2.1+git20230504/source/dkms.conf)
grep: /lib/modules/6.1.0-12-amd64/build/.config: No such file or directory
Deprecated feature: MODULES_CONF (/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821ce/5.5.2.1+git20230504/source/dkms.conf)
Sign command: /usr/lib/linux-kbuild-6.1/scripts/sign-file
Signing key: /var/lib/dkms/mok.key
Public certificate (MOK): /var/lib/dkms/mok.pub

Building module:
Cleaning build area...
make -j6 KERNELRELEASE=6.1.0-16-amd64 KVER=6.1.0-16-amd64....
Signing module /var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/wl.ko
Cleaning build area...

wl.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/6.1.0-16-amd64/updates/dkms/
depmod...
Sign command: /usr/lib/linux-kbuild-6.1/scripts/sign-file
Signing key: /var/lib/dkms/mok.key
Public certificate (MOK): /var/lib/dkms/mok.pub

Building module:
Cleaning build area...
'make' all KVER=6.1.0-16-amd64...........................
Signing module /var/lib/dkms/rtl8188fu/1.0/build/rtl8188fu.ko
Cleaning build area...

rtl8188fu.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/6.1.0-16-amd64/updates/dkms/
depmod...
Sign command: /usr/lib/linux-kbuild-6.1/scripts/sign-file
Signing key: /var/lib/dkms/mok.key
Public certificate (MOK): /var/lib/dkms/mok.pub
Deprecated feature: MODULES_CONF (/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821ce/5.5.2.1+git20230504/source/dkms.conf)

Building module:
Cleaning build area...
'make' -j6 KVER=6.1.0-16-amd64 USER_MODULE_NAME=rtl8821ce CONFIG_RTW_DEBUG=n.............
Signing module /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821ce/5.5.2.1+git20230504/build/rtl8821ce.ko
Cleaning build area...

rtl8821ce.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/6.1.0-16-amd64/updates/dkms/
depmod...
Sign command: /usr/lib/linux-kbuild-6.1/scripts/sign-file
Signing key: /var/lib/dkms/mok.key
Public certificate (MOK): /var/lib/dkms/mok.pub

Building module:
Cleaning build area...
'make' all KVER=6.1.0-16-amd64..........................................................
Signing module /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821cu/5.12.0/build/8821cu.ko
Cleaning build area...

8821cu.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/6.1.0-16-amd64/updates/dkms/
depmod...
dkms: autoinstall for kernel: 6.1.0-16-amd64.
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-16-amd64
I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/nvme0n1p7
I: (UUID=deff4166-e794-41be-b529-8b2a44a031c0)
I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub:
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found theme: /boot/grub/themes/mx_linux/theme.txt
Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-16-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-16-amd64
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-12-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-12-amd64
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-11-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-11-amd64
Found mtest-64.efi image: /boot/uefi-mt/mtest-64.efi
Found Windows Boot Manager on /dev/nvme0n1p1@/efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration
done
Setting up linux-headers-6.1.0-16-common (6.1.67-1) ...
Setting up linux-image-amd64 (6.1.67-1) ...
Setting up apparmor (3.0.8-3) ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/apparmor.service → /lib/systemd/system/apparmor.service.
Reloading AppArmor profiles
Skipping profile in /etc/apparmor.d/disable: usr.bin.thunderbird
Setting up linux-headers-6.1.0-16-amd64 (6.1.67-1) ...
/etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms:
dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 6.1.0-16-amd64.
/usr/sbin/dkms.mx autoinstall --kernelver 6.1.0-16-amd64
Deprecated feature: MODULES_CONF (/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821ce/5.5.2.1+git20230504/source/dkms.conf)
grep: /lib/modules/6.1.0-12-amd64/build/.config: No such file or directory
Deprecated feature: MODULES_CONF (/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821ce/5.5.2.1+git20230504/source/dkms.conf)
Deprecated feature: MODULES_CONF (/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821ce/5.5.2.1+git20230504/source/dkms.conf)
dkms: autoinstall for kernel: 6.1.0-16-amd64.
Setting up linux-headers-amd64 (6.1.67-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ...

HOORAY!! This seems to have unplugged the jam!!
I'll try rebooting, and hopefully come back here to mark this topic SOLVED

Many, many thanks to all who participated
[/quote]

EDIT:
after reboot:

$ uname -r
6.1.0-16-amd64

Seems O.K. If there are WiFi issues I can work around them (Ethernet is up)
Once again -- Many thanks to all!!
~Mike

[Charlie Brown]

Also salute @MXRobo

The residual config thing is that the configuration files were still there for it was just removed but not purged. (I had purged mine, therefore it doesn't show that, too).

[MikeR]

@MXRobo

Also salute @MXRobo

Too true. mea culpa.
MANY THANKS!!