[lug] WARNING! - Ubuntu Kernel 2.6.32-61-generic Update Breaks Video

[Davide Del Vento]

If these updates are like the ones when I used it, they included the
"previous kernel" option in the bootloader. Just make sure you have the
bootloader option to "ask" enabled, and you should see the whole, endless
list of all kernels ever installed on that machine.
Hope this helps, but I agree with Lee, it sounds unlikely to be the kernel.

PS: But isn't 10.04 out of support, therefore without updates? IIRC, the
stopping of that support is what prompted me to abandon Ubuntu (since I did
not like 12.04 GUI)


On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Lee Woodworth <blug-mail at duboulder.com>
wrote:

> On 06/07/2014 11:33 AM, Lori R wrote:
> > The latest Ubuntu (in the last 24 hours) 2.6.32-61-generic update for LTS
> > 10.04 (don't ask) seems to have broken video play, at least for VLC, and
> I
> > don't care about any other vid players.
> >
> .....
> > I have never reverted to a previous kernel so if any one can point me at
> an
> > easy to follow tutorial, I'd appreciate it. (Yes, I will Google, but any
> > assistance would be appreciated)
>
> Can't say anything about ubuntu specifically, but you might need to roll
> back
> more than the kernel. It depends on whether glibc and/or kernel headers
> were also updated. If either were updated you may have packages (e.g.
> alsa, file
> system tools, out-of-tree device drivers) that also depend on the
> newer kernel/header version.
>
> Search for 'reverse dependency' tracking for your package manager. Use
> that function
> to see what other packages depend on the kernel. Also the kernel headers
> if you have
> them, it might be a package named something like linux-headers.
>
> If glibc was updated, it is more complicated. The library ABI probably
> didn't
> change but the code inside glibc can depend on kernel features (e.g. the
> existence
> of certain syscalls) since building glibc uses the kernel headers. So you
> would need to know what kernel headers the updated glibc was built
> against. If you
> are lucky, it was the kernel you want to revert to or earlier. A version
> dependency
> on the kernel by glibc might tell you that.
>
> HTH
>
>
>
> > Thanks,
> > Lori
> > www.lightning-rose.com
> >
> >
> >
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