I just finished updating a system to F36. It did not go smoothly (/var got filled and dnf system-upgrade failed to remove a bunch of F35 packages). I’ve managed to clean up most of the mess, but the grub menu still shows a F35 kernel. I tried to update the menu manually with kernel-install but no luck. I get the following output and the grub menu remains the same as before.
$ sudo kernel-install add 5.17.6-300.fc36.x86_64 /lib/modules/5.17.6-300.fc36.x86_64/vmlinuz
dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 5.17.6-300.fc36.x86_64
Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file.
File: /var/lib/dkms/mba6x_bl/20150428.f1482dd/source/dkms.conf does not exist.
Done.
That’s actually normal and it will drop off on its own after a few Fedora 36 kernels have been installed. A few old kernels are left just in case of emergency if you can’t boot to a new one.
Yes. When I ran it yesterday dnf distro-sync did its checks and then said “Nothing to do” or something to that effect. I ran it again just now and it looks like it’s installing a new kernel. I’ll reboot after it’s done and see what happened to the grub menu.
After rebooting I find the oldest F35 kernel has been removed from the grub menu but nothing new has been added, even though dnf distro-sync installed a new kernel.
That command has the side effect of removing a very large number of other packages, surely there’s a way to reinstall the kernel without triggering a mass removal of packages from the system.
Do you have tried it? This is not removing large packages dependency at least in my fedora 37 linux system. I think this is safe to do that. See my SS below
Interesting, it looks like you have several F37 kernels on your system. I don’t have that.
On my system I was able to remove and reinstall the most recent F36 kernel (5.17.7) without affecting other packages. But if I try to remove kernel 5.17.6-300.fc36 I get this:
sudo dnf remove kernel\*5.17.6\*fc36\* --noautoremove
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Removing:
kernel-core x86_64 5.17.6-300.fc36 @updates 89 M
kernel-devel x86_64 5.17.6-300.fc36 @updates 63 M
kernel-headers x86_64 5.17.6-300.fc36 @updates 5.7 M
kernel-modules x86_64 5.17.6-300.fc36 @updates 52 M
kernel-modules-extra x86_64 5.17.6-300.fc36 @updates 3.2 M
Removing dependent packages:
R x86_64 4.1.3-1.fc36 @fedora 0
R-core-devel x86_64 4.1.3-1.fc36 @fedora 391 k
R-devel x86_64 4.1.3-1.fc36 @fedora 0
annobin-plugin-gcc x86_64 10.71-1.fc36 @updates 879 k
blas-devel x86_64 3.10.1-1.fc36 @updates 96 k
boost-devel x86_64 1.76.0-11.fc36 @updates 135 M
boost-static x86_64 1.76.0-11.fc36 @updates 49 M
cegui-devel x86_64 0.8.7-24.fc36 @fedora 31 M
clang x86_64 14.0.0-1.fc36 @fedora 184 k
clang-devel x86_64 14.0.0-1.fc36 @fedora 17 M
dkms noarch 3.0.3-2.fc36 @fedora 148 k
ecl x86_64 21.2.1-5.fc36 @fedora 23 M
freeglut-devel x86_64 3.2.2-1.fc36 @fedora 2.3 M
gcc x86_64 12.1.1-1.fc36 @updates 91 M
gcc-c++ x86_64 12.1.1-1.fc36 @updates 34 M
gcc-gdb-plugin x86_64 12.1.1-1.fc36 @updates 336 k
gcc-gfortran x86_64 12.1.1-1.fc36 @updates 33 M
gl2ps-devel x86_64 1.4.2-5.fc36 @fedora 256 k
glibc-devel x86_64 2.35-6.fc36 @updates 97 k
gobject-introspection-devel x86_64 1.72.0-1.fc36 @fedora 13 M
google-musicmanager-beta x86_64 1.0.467.4929-0 @google-musicmanager
16 M
gtkglarea2-devel x86_64 2.0.1-13.fc26 @@commandline 36 k
hdf5-devel x86_64 1.12.1-5.fc36 @fedora 3.9 M
imath-devel x86_64 3.1.5-1.fc36 @updates 3.8 M
kernel-devel x86_64 5.17.6-200.fc35 @updates 62 M
kmod-wl-5.17.6-300.fc36.x86_64 x86_64 6.30.223.271-41.fc36 @@commandline 1.7 M
lapack-devel x86_64 3.10.1-1.fc36 @updates 1.6 M
libdrm-devel x86_64 2.4.110-1.fc36 @fedora 606 k
libquadmath-devel x86_64 12.1.1-1.fc36 @updates 21 k
libtool x86_64 2.4.6-50.fc36 @fedora 2.6 M
libxcrypt-devel x86_64 4.4.28-1.fc36 @fedora 30 k
mesa-libGL-devel x86_64 22.0.3-1.fc36 @updates 77 k
mygui x86_64 3.2.2-13.fc32 @fedora 13 M
mygui-devel x86_64 3.2.2-13.fc32 @fedora 2.1 M
net-snmp-devel x86_64 1:5.9.1-14.fc36 @fedora 769 k
net-snmp-gui x86_64 1:5.9.1-14.fc36 @fedora 31 k
net-snmp-perl x86_64 1:5.9.1-14.fc36 @fedora 1.2 M
netcdf-cxx-devel x86_64 4.2-29.fc36 @fedora 1.4 M
netcdf-devel x86_64 4.8.1-3.fc36 @fedora 400 k
octave x86_64 6:6.4.0-5.fc36 @fedora 57 M
octave-control x86_64 3.4.0-2.fc36 @fedora 3.5 M
octave-io x86_64 2.6.4-2.fc36 @fedora 1.1 M
octave-odepkg x86_64 0.9.1-0.18.20210827hg611.fc36
@fedora 1.8 M
ogre-devel x86_64 1:1.9.0-40.fc36 @fedora 7.1 M
openexr-devel x86_64 3.1.5-1.fc36 @updates 734 k
openmpi-devel x86_64 4.1.2-3.fc36 @fedora 1.9 M
perl x86_64 4:5.34.1-486.fc36 @fedora 0
perl-App-cpanminus noarch 1.7046-1.fc36 @updates 249 k
perl-CPAN noarch 2.34-1.fc36 @updates 1.9 M
perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder noarch 1:0.280236-479.fc36 @fedora 96 k
perl-ExtUtils-Embed noarch 1.35-486.fc36 @fedora 16 k
perl-ExtUtils-Miniperl noarch 1.10-486.fc36 @fedora 8.7 k
perl-devel x86_64 4:5.34.1-486.fc36 @fedora 7.5 M
pocl x86_64 1.8-1.fc36 @fedora 52 M
python3-gobject-devel x86_64 3.42.1-1.fc36 @updates 25 k
python3-qt5-devel x86_64 5.15.6-3.fc36 @fedora 2.7 M
python3-theano noarch 1.1.2-3.fc36 @fedora 13 M
qt-devel x86_64 1:4.8.7-67.fc36 @fedora 38 M
qt3-devel x86_64 3.3.8b-90.fc36 @fedora 47 M
qt5-qtbase-devel x86_64 5.15.3-1.fc36 @fedora 19 M
qt5-qtsvg-devel x86_64 5.15.3-1.fc36 @fedora 84 k
qt5-rpm-macros noarch 5.15.3-1.fc36 @fedora 1.6 k
qwt-devel x86_64 6.1.5-6.fc36 @fedora 364 k
redhat-lsb x86_64 4.1-56.fc36 @fedora 1.1 k
redhat-lsb-languages x86_64 4.1-56.fc36 @fedora 944
sundials x86_64 5.8.0-4.fc36 @fedora 5.8 M
Transaction Summary
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Remove 71 Packages
Freed space: 1.0 G
Is this ok [y/N]:
Not exactly like that, I use Fedora 37 or rawhide, I’ve upgraded yesterday from fedora 36 beta. The upgraded process is like fedora as usual flawlessly and smoothly haha I upgraded because I want to know if my old laptop which doesn’t support uefi still can upgrade to use fedora 37 in the future release, and at least I know it’s working well.
I also have tried your command above. but still no include large dependency when i tried to remove kernel 5.17.7-300.fc36 with your command above. see my SS below:
It looks like the reason for the mass removal of packages was that 5.17.6 was the only version for the kernel-headers package. I learned in another thread that the kernel-headers package is not necessarily provided for every kernel; if no changes to userspace headers occurs in a new kernel release then the headers for the earlier kernel version can still be used. So I was able to remove kernel 5.17.6 with dnf remove kernel-core-5.17.6-300.fc36 and it only removed that kernel version and its modules and not dozens of other packages.
And the reason the grub menu didn’t update was that a bug in systemd kernel-install which causes it to put the kernel files in /boot/efi rather than in /boot. Fix was to delete /boot/efi/<machine id>. Details here:
I tried your solution, but it doesn’t work. I just updated OS to Fedora36, and I also find this bug.
I updated fedora kernel belows:
sudo dnf upgrade
When the system is updated, I reboot the system. And I found the new kernel has not shown in grub menu.
To solve this problem, I did that:
~ sudo sed -i ‘s/GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true/GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=false/g’ /etc/default/grub
~ sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
~ sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg
But how to fix this bug? Please help.