12 Feb
2020
12 Feb
'20
3:30 p.m.
Hi Martijn,
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 05:14:15PM +0200, Martijn Grooten wrote:
"This version of the GNU libc requires kernel
version 3.2 or later. Please
upgrade your kernel before installing glibc."
That is rather worrying. The kernel in buster is 4.19.67-2+deb10u2.
In the previous release (stretch) it is 4.9.210-1 and in the one
before that (jessie) there was 3.16.81-1.
Is there an easy answer to the obvious question what
kernel to upgrade to?
And would this even solve my issues? I currently appear to be running
2.6.32-5-686-bigmem.
That's absolutely ancient and I am amazed that your system works at
all.
Any ideas how you have managed to end up running a Debian 6
(squeeze) era kernel on a Debian 10 user land?
That kernel went end of life for security updates in 2014 by the
way!
I've had this server for years and I might have
added one quick fix for a
specific problem too many over the years.
Here's the content of /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/debian/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/
stable main contrib
deb-src http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/debian/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/
stable main contrib
deb http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/debian/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/
stable-updates main contrib
deb http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/debian/security.debian.org/
stable/updates main contrib
Are you sure you're actually running Debian stable, i.e. you have
previously done an "apt-get update" and then an "apt-get
dist-upgrade" which all completed okay in the past?
What kernels do you actually have installed right now?
$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image
What is the output of:
$ ls -la /boot/
What happens when you update your grub config:
$ sudo update-grub
I would really hope that it is just a case of there being an old
kernel hanging around that your boot loader keeps selecting but
honestly this is so weird that I would not trust your system to come
back up correctly if you rebooted it right now.
Cheers,
Andy
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