Update kernel freeze

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Jorge Teixeira

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Hi.
When upgrading the new kernel today, it froze at generating initramfs and now when i try again, it says "could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open ". I have not yet reboot as i am afraid of not being able to do it any more. What should i do?
 
what happened after the "freeze" (did you kill the upgrade with ctrl+c? where there any error messages? ...)? is there still a dpkg process running? if you have a separate /boot, is there still enough free space there?
 
fabian said:
what happened after the "freeze" (did you kill the upgrade with ctrl+c? where there any error messages? ...)? is there still a dpkg process running? if you have a separate /boot, is there still enough free space there?
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Hi Fabian.
Thanks for the quick reply. After the freeze i issued a "pkill dpkg". I do not have a separate boot and my boot ssd is 128GB. Right now everything is running fine but i' am afraid of rebooting.
 
fabian said:
what happened after the "freeze" (did you kill the upgrade with ctrl+c? where there any error messages? ...)? is there still a dpkg process running? if you have a separate /boot, is there still enough free space there?
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I have done a "dpkg --configure -a" command and it seems that it instaled the kernel just fine this time. Also the error with the lock is gone. Do you think its safe to reboot?
 
Jorge Teixeira said:
I have done a "dpkg --configure -a" command and it seems that it instaled the kernel just fine this time. Also the error with the lock is gone. Do you think its safe to reboot?
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if you have local access or iKVM you should always be able to boot using the previous kernel/initrd combination if the new one is not correctly installed. just select the old one in the advanced options submenu of the Grub boot menu.

you can also re-install the pve-kernel-XXX package to make sure ("apt-get install --reinstall pve-kernel-4.4.59-1-pve" in this case).
 
fabian said:
if you have local access or iKVM you should always be able to boot using the previous kernel/initrd combination if the new one is not correctly installed. just select the old one in the advanced options submenu of the Grub boot menu.

you can also re-install the pve-kernel-XXX package to make sure ("apt-get install --reinstall pve-kernel-4.4.59-1-pve" in this case).
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I have reinstaled the kernel and it worked. Many thanks .
 
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