I think i had this issue a few years ago when upgrading Debian, I can't
really recall what I did it fix it, but I seem to remember something about
the kernel name had changed and so wouldn't upgrade since they no longer
where updating that kernel name. Actually re-reading, I think they dropped
the -bigmem and went with -pae. So try having a close look at the newer
kernel version names.
You just need to install the newer version reboot and remove the older
version.
Kamal.
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 03:03, Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:
> Hi Martijn,
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 05:49:12PM +0200, Martijn Grooten wrote:
> > > $ dpkg -l | grep linux-image
> >
> > ii linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem 2.6.32+29
> > i386 Linux 2.6 for PCs with 4GB+ RAM (meta-package)
> > rc linux-image-2.6.32-3-686-bigmem 2.6.32-9
> > i386 Linux 2.6.32 for PCs with 4GB+ RAM
> > ii linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem 2.6.32-48squeeze19
> > i386 Linux 2.6.32 for PCs with 4GB+ RAM
> > ii linux-image-686-bigmem 2.6.32+29
> > i386 Linux for PCs with 4GB+ RAM (meta-package)
>
> You only have the kernel from Debian squeeze installed.
>
> I don't know how it would be possible to upgrade through so many
> major releases without ever installing or using a newer kernel. It
> makes me wonder if the server is truly running Debian buster.
>
> In your /etc/apt/sources you list the release as "stable". Normally
> best practice is to use the release name there (e.g. "squeeze",
> "buster") so that the release doesn't change when a new stable
> release is made.
>
> I am hesitant to advise simply trying to install the ekrnel package
> for Debian stable ("linux-image-686-pae") because it isn't clear to
> em that you actually are running Debian stable.
>
> Have you actually done an upgrade through each successive release
> (squeeze, wheezy, jessie, stretch, buster) or did you just change
> /etc/apt/sources.list to not say "squeeze" and instead say "stable"?
>
> What is the output of:
>
> $ cat /etc/debian_version
>
> Also if you could do this:
>
> $ dpkg -l > package_list.txt
>
> and attach that to the email? That will tell us exactly what package
> versions you have.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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