Re: Raspbery Pi OS Lite stuck

On 17/06/2024 20:29, Mike Powell wrote:

Except... I've noticed that the kernel is stuck on 6.1.x from 2023 and
whilst there are updates for the components when I run the regular "sudo
apt update / sudo apt upgrade" the kernel doesn't get touched. Looking
on the PiOS website it's says Pi OS lite 32bit is on kernel 6.6.

 

So my question is whether there is some way with apt update/upgrade to
get the kernel updated? Or I am facing (what I expect to the case) that
I need to do a clean install of the latest image and re-apply my SDcard
wear reducing mods?

 

Ideas?

 The raspberry pi website suggests that you use "full-upgrade" each time
instead of "upgrade."  My kernel would sometimes be listed as "held back"
if I only used "upgrade."  "full-upgrade" seems to cause it to be updated
when one is available.
    * SLMR 2.1a * */  <==-- Tribble with a lightsaber
 

Thanks for the suggestions.  Spending a while looking about the system showed there was no linux-image-xxxx package installed.  I don't know how that actually happened but it would explain why the kernel was not being updated. The kernel would be the files from bullseye I'm assuming. I had a few half-hearted attempts to try to install the linux-image-6.1.xx package that the currently installed kernel came from but I got errors each time I tried.
So... I took the MS way out and blitzed it with the latest image and installed on a new card. A bit of headless setup fun and then checking in an A+ with a serial console and a Wifi dongle meant I could confirm everything was working. SDcard into the Pi Zero, booted up and auto connected to the Wifi. Followed by apt update/upgrade, copy some files from the old card, install fail2ban, make the wear reducing changes and we're back in business.
I've kept the old card so I may try seeing I can can fix the borked install and get it to update. I feel I'd understand things better that way. I don't know if this was the result of doing an in-place update from bullseye to bookworm.
Thanks for the comments.