Public bug reported:
I upgraded my Thinkpad T40 system from Precise to Quantal yesterday.
It's quite a long-running Ubuntu install so I got various prompts from
dpkg about replacing config files etc., and one curious error that
linux-image-3.5.0-generic failed to install. After upgrading, 'apt-get'
was broken, suggesting I ran 'apt-get install -f' which proceeded to
fail to install linux-image-3.50-generic again. I noticed an error
message hidden amongst apt's output to the effect that the kernel cannot
be installed on my non-PAE hardware.
I would not have run the dist-upgrade in the first place, had I known
that in the long-term Quantal and future releases will not work on my
computer in any case (it still has the 3.2.0 kernel for now, but I don't
think that using an unsupported kernel is viable in the long term). It
would be great if update-manager could warn when it detects non-PAE
hardware to avoid others wasting an evening as I just have.
The only hint of dropping support in the release notes is the following
line:
Transitioning of the i386 generic-pae flavor to become the generic
flavor offering
I had no idea what PAE was until today, so this isn't enough in itself.
Release: Precise Pangolin
Hardware: IBM Thinkpad T40
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: dist-upgrade
** Tags added: dist-upgrade
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Title:
Should warn users with non-PAE systems that Ubuntu has dropped support
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