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   Handsome Jack to Felix   
   Re: Kernel update hell   
   31 Oct 25 07:01:43   
   
   From: jack@handsome.com   
      
   On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:37:40 +1100, Felix wrote:   
      
   > pinnerite wrote:   
   >> This morning I accepted the update for kernel 6.8.0-86-generic.   
   >> When I booted up, I had lost my primary screen.   
   >>   
   >> I worked back to kernel 6.8.0-84 and got it back.   
   >>   
   >> BUt the drivers for my TBS 6281 DVB-T2 TV card no longer worked and had   
   >> to be recompliled.   
   >> Would they? No.   
   >>   
   >> ChatGPT hAd been running me ragged this evening overv this when up   
   >> popped kernel 6.8.0-87-generic.   
   >> Are we we thought (ChstGPT and me). That is probably a clean-up   
   >> version.   
   >> Well no it isn't.   
   >>   
   >> I am not going to install further kernels until whatever.   
   >   
   > just do a timeshift before a kernel update   
   >   
   >   
      
   But how do you restore from a timeshift, if the kernel update has disabled   
   your machine?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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