do-release-upgrade kernel selection could be better
Bug #543599 reported by
LaMont Jones
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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base-installer (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
Upgrading a low-end box from hardy with 2.6.24-17-server to lucid, do-release-upgrade chose linux-generic-pae as the kernel of choice.
The box in question is a PII/233 with 192MB of RAM (and 6GB of hard drive). Once I fired that kernel and switched to linux-386, the machine is back to not swapping constantly due to memory pressure.
I'm not sure where the right trade-off point for choosing linux-386 over linux-generic-pae is, but this box is definitely past that transition.
Please consider better kernel selection.
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Thanks for your bugreport.
The component "base-installer" helps the upgrader with the kernel selection. Could you please attach /var/log/ dist-upgrade/ main.log to see what it selected?