Old kernel packages should be marked as obsolete in package managers like synaptic

[José Alburquerque]

Some time ago, whenever the kernel was updated on this system, synaptic showed the old kernels as obsolete which reminded me to remove them (I still use synaptic because sometimes I like to decided exactly which packages are added/removed and not leave it up to the system). This no longer happens. It'd be nice if this could be changed to behave as before.

ProblemType: Bug
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: amd64
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'ALS4000'/'Avance Logic ALS4000 at 0xdc00, irq 19'
   Mixer name : 'ALS4000'
   Components : 'ALS4000'
   Controls : 30
   Simple ctrls : 20
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'V8237'/'VIA 8237 with ALC658D at 0xd000, irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC658D'
   Components : 'AC97a:414c4781'
   Controls : 45
   Simple ctrls : 27
Date: Mon Mar 8 12:36:03 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Frequency: This has only happened once.
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=38b2b5a1-9d21-40ae-a4f1-d30e6a3e5c7f
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.
Package: linux-image-generic 2.6.32.16.16
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=06e1c48d-56bd-443b-8324-1975f908d414 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.24-generic
Regression: No
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.32
Reproducible: No
RfKill:

SourcePackage: linux
TestedUpstream: No
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64
WpaSupplicantLog:

dmi.bios.date: 05/17/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: AV8 (VIA K8T800P-8237)
dmi.board.vendor: http://www.abit.com.tw/
dmi.board.version: 1.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd05/17/2006:svn:pn:pvr:rvnhttp//www.abit.com.tw/:rnAV8(VIAK8T800P-8237):rvr1.x:cvn:ct3:cvr:

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi José,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 534539

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[José Alburquerque (jaalburquerque)]

What happened is that my system crashed and I had to re-install a fresh. I cannot see if this is fixed because I've not had to upgrade the kernel. Since information for this bug cannot be supplied because I re-installed ubuntu, this bug can be closed. I can file a new one if it happens again. Thanks.