Comment 28 for bug 1052861

I have now purged all -43 and -44 kernels (i.e. the released -43 kernel and all test kernels v1 through v5), then reinstalled the released -43 kernel, and also pulled in the compat-wireless package for -43. After rebooting the machine has stayed up overnight.

Luis and I both had a theory about the cause:

- Luis found an installation issue in the apt logs which might have caused the initial installation of the -43 kernel to be bodged. I would however have expected that situation to have been corrected by my subsequent dpkg -i-ing of the test kernel packages.

- I noticed that I am using certain modules from the compat-wireless package, and that a compat-wireless package corresponding with the -43 kernel package had not yet been available when I first upgraded to -43, nor while I was testing the v1 through v3 test kernels which were also based on the -43 ABI.

I could try and remove the -43 compat-wireless package and test again; would you like me to do that? (Meanwhile I'll keep the current situation until the machine has been up for at least 48 hours in order to confirm stability).