Comment 18 for bug 1917283

Chris,

I did not know the multiple support places that might be involved. I
followed the "advice" to report this problem from the updater, which led
me to the Kernel group. I use apt, apt-get, and aptitude (depending on
the difficulty) for updating. I did spend a long time (from the latest
bionic kernel update to now) trying to find a solution for this. I
searched all the forums via duckduckgo and none were about a mislaid
update element (focal dependencies in bionic distro). I thought that the
problem might have been caused by the kernel dependencies list when the
kernel was updated. An incidental "solution" may well relate to the
other resources you suggest, however, this problem only occurred on
update of the kernel to 136 from 135. In that update, the packages did
not (from my pea brained memory) include the ones in the bug report. I
did note that libc6 was listed as a dependency from 27 to 29 for some of
the focal components when I did a build-dep request in apt-get. Since I
am not adept at the specific kernel ancillary dependencies that are met
to perform the update, and since the problem started with the update, I
thought the bug was properly made. I have kubuntu (kde) version of
ubuntu which is oriented towards audio elements. Some kernel items (I am
guessing) include MIDI devices, audio steam control and linking
[pulseaudio], etc. Are distro kernel dependencies verified for release
compatibility? That is, are the elements that use the kernel in a given
distribution verified anywhere as specific to that kernel long term
release, and by whom? The applications looking for focal dependencies
may/may-not be focal release. I do not know. Right now this is a bag of
worms for me.

*Yours in Lionism,

Michael F Winthrop
Member: Sterling Lions Club, VA
Member: EAA Chapter 186, Manassas Apt. KHEF *
On 3/1/21 2:24 AM, Chris Guiver wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better.
>
> Bug reporting is mostly about finding & fixing problems thus preventing
> future users from hitting the same bug.
>
> I suspect a Support site would be more appropriate, eg.
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu. You can also find help with your
> problem in the support forum of your local Ubuntu community
> http://loco.ubuntu.com/ or asking at https://askubuntu.com or
> https://ubuntuforums.org, or for more support options please look at
> https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/community-support/709
>
> (Note: you've filed this is as a kernel bug (against the linux kernel)
> but mention release-upgrade so I wonder if your intended package should
> be ubuntu-release-upgrader, but a quick scan of your mentioned packages
> shows numerous 3rd party packages that I don't see matching any
> supported release of Ubuntu; so I'd suggest seeking support & possibly
> using ppa-purge, but your description doesn't appear to be about a
> kernel issue so I'm confused).
>