- usr13
- Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 at 1:22:03pm MDT
- I understand that the 2.6.8-2-686 kernel has security issues.
- # uname -r
- 2.6.8-2-686
- In an attempt to upgrade to 2.6.8-3-686 I encountered errors:
- ======================================
- # apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686 kernel-headers-2.6.8-3-686
- Reading Package Lists... Done
- Building Dependency Tree... Done
- kernel-headers-2.6.8-3-686 is already the newest version.
- Suggested packages:
- lilo kernel-doc-2.6.8 kernel-source-2.6.8
- The following NEW packages will be installed:
- kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686
- 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
- 3 not fully installed or removed.
- Need to get 0B/15.5MB of archives.
- After unpacking 45.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
- (Reading database ... 82240 files and directories currently installed.)
- Unpacking kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686 (from .../kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686_2.6.8-16sarge4_i386.deb) ...
- You are attempting to install a kernel image (version 2.6.8-3-686)
- However, the directory /lib/modules/2.6.8-3-686 still exists. If this
- directory belongs to a previous kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686 package, and if
- you have deselected some modules, or installed standalone modules
- packages, this could be bad. However, if this directory exists because
- you are also installing some stand alone modules right now, and they
- got unpacked before I did, then this is pretty benign. Unfortunately,
- I can not tell the difference.
- If /lib/modules/2.6.8-3-686 belongs to a old install of
- kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686, then this is your last chance to abort the
- installation of this kernel image (nothing has been changed yet).
- If this directory is because of stand alone modules being installed
- right now, or if it does belong to an older kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686
- package but you know what you are doing, and if you feel that this
- image should be installed despite this anomaly, Please answer n to the
- question.
- Otherwise, I suggest you move /lib/modules/2.6.8-3-686 out of the way,
- perhaps to /lib/modules/2.6.8-3-686.old or something, and then try
- re-installing this image.
- Do you want to stop now? [Y/n]
- ==================================
- Not sure what to do here. Any advice would be most appreciated.
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