Just a few minutes ago, there were updates waiting so I chose to install them (from the GUI), and much to my surprise, I see that it tries to install oracle and lowlatency kernels. The process failed during config phase and now the following packages are “half-conf”.
iF linux-image-6.2.0-1005-oracle 6.2.0-1005.5 amd64 Signed kernel image oracle
iF linux-image-6.2.0-1007-lowlatency 6.2.0-1007.7 amd64 Signed kernel image lowlatency
Considering :
- I only had generic kernels installed
- I didn’t install any new packages in months
- Previous recent updates worked with no problem
Can someone explain what just happened ?
EDIT :
I found here and there, posts and bug reports that are hinting towards an unrequested kernel stack change :
- Bug #2025538 “Unrequested kernel update”
- Bug #2025537 “chrome Check failed”
- upgrade - Ubuntu 22.04: crazy kernel updates
- nvidia - Aften normal update and reboot, Ubuntu 22 fails to boot with drivers, how to fix?
So, 22.04 and 23.04 seem to be affected.
My (wild) guess is, it’s related to ubuntu-drivers-common and only concerns people with an Nvidia GPU, the system being hinted towards a wrong driver from another kernel stack.
