What is 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 ?
 

Running Squeeze 64bit and did a dist-upgrade out of curiosity :D

The next time I started this computer, noticed that I had a new 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 item in the grub menu. Boot into it and Debian drops into a console login instead of the normal KDM.

Somehow it cannot detect my screen. Anyway, I booted into my usual 2.6.30-2-amd64 and googled and doesn't seem to quite understand what had happened.

So just curious, what is this new 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 about?

Unless you are on intel vga or something that has opensource vga drivers, upgrading the kernel means you have to rebuild the relevant module with module assistant.

I just noticed that after today's dist-upgrade I also get the 2.6.32-trunk kernel?
What is that "trunk" there? I guess there should be a sub-version number.

It has "trunk" because the 2.6.32 kernel at least in sid has been keeping up with kernel.org's kernel releases. At least within a few days after the upstream kernel is released Debian has the same version along with all the nifty Debian patches.

Debian 2.6.32-5 kernel.org stable: 2.6.32.5 2010-01-22

Which to say the least is very unusual for Debian.

I don't mind the naming of the package, but won't this be a problem when eg 2.6.32.6 will be out?
It will also be named as "trunk", thus replace the older package but use the same entry in grub.

There is now a linux-image-2.6.32-1-amd64 which contains version 2.6.32-6. For some reason, though, this wasn't automatically installed on my system, which has linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 installed.