I have been running Ubuntu for years now but I am one of those users that thank the stars that Ubunutu 'just works'! I am having a problem which I find hard to put into a search.
I upgraded to 17.10 last night. I found that
uname -r
returns kernel version 4.2.0-16-generic. It appears the current kernel version for 17.10 should be 4.13.0-16. I can see about 30 kernel versions when I run
dpkg --list
however when I try to delete an older one it tells me it cannot find it. The only other posts I can find refer to things that seem above my head. I did find a couple of commands that show output which may be helpful.
sudo update-grub
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-16-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-16-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-16-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.2.0-16-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-16-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-16-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-16-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.2.0-16-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-16-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-16-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-16-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.2.0-16-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.elf
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-16-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-16-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-16-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.2.0-16-generic
done
ls -la /etc/grub.d
total 124
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Oct 28 09:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 155 root root 12288 Oct 28 09:12 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 533 Oct 28 09:19 40_custom_proxy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 735 Oct 28 09:19 41_linux_proxy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 127 Oct 28 09:19 42_debian_theme_proxy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9783 Mar 30 2017 43_header
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 121 Oct 28 09:19 44_custom_proxy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 127 Oct 28 09:19 45_debian_theme_proxy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 691 Oct 28 09:19 46_linux_proxy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 533 Oct 28 09:19 47_custom_proxy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 690 Oct 28 09:19 48_linux_proxy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11281 Mar 30 2017 49_linux_xen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 265 Oct 28 09:19 50_memtest86+_proxy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12059 Mar 30 2017 51_os-prober
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1418 Oct 14 2015 52_uefi-firmware
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 533 Oct 28 09:19 53_custom_proxy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 736 Oct 28 09:19 54_linux_proxy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 121 Oct 28 09:19 55_custom_proxy
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 9 2015 backup
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 9 2015 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 28 09:19 proxifiedScripts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 483 Oct 14 2015 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 362 Oct 28 09:19 .script_sources.txt
Apparently something is not right. I was using Grub Customizer to try to get 17.10 to load with 4.13.0-16 instead of 4.2.0-16 which
uname -r
says I am running.
lsb_release -a
says I have 17.10
See comment below - this is similar to two other posts but both include references to permissions and removal - neither of which I am familiar with or are sure what values to use safely. Nor can I tell which entry I should do something with even if I did.
