[SOLVED] Updating through slackpkg didnt upgraded the kernel in slackware64-current
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That an upgrade shows in the Changelog do not tell if it was applied. You should look in /var/log/packages instead
Either the kernel is blacklisted in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist and was not installed or for some reason the symlink /boot/linux does not point to the new kernel.
Anyway people who run Slackware current are expected to be able to solve themselves this kind of issue and furthermore it is not recommended to upgrade to a new kernel, but instead to first install it alongside the previous one, just in case. Only when you are sure you can boot with the new kernel you can get rid of the old one.
and so on others , i rebooted my machine when i do uname -r it is still showing "4.4.0"
what could have gone wrong?
Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems you didn't run slackpkg upgrade-all after slackpkg update.
slackpkg update only download metadata from slackware mirror. To install the updates you need to run slackpkg upgrade-all or, slackpkg upgrade kernel to only upgrade the kernel.
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Last edited by phenixia2003; 02-26-2016 at 04:57 AM.
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