Comments on Installing Kernel Security Updates Without Reboot With Ksplice Uptrack On Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop

I installed ksplice, and after it had updated my kernel, the next day when I booted my system just booted into text mode or low graphics mode. Had it on multiple systems, 1 with ati card and 2 with nvidia...

Why would you even put ksplice on a computer that you plan on reboot at all?

If you're using nvidia's drivers (not the nouveau driver) you would need to recompile the nvidia driver. I've never used ksplice, however, I'm going to assume that they're not updating your graphics driver.

 Ksplice is aim more towards servers than desktops.

Rerun dkms through dpkg, if you're on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia

Package name may vary; here it's 'nvidia-current'.

I have been using Linux for about one year now. The distro I started on was Debian Lenny. A friend convienced me that Ubuntu Karmic was pretty decent, after I had a royal fit trying to install all the Nvidia stuff, get my monitor to do better resolutions. It was a lot easier in Ubuntu. In Debian it could be done but it required a little arcane voodoo behind the scenes. Now that I run Ubuntu all is well as far as graphics, got 3-D, Compiz, Emerald. I use Gnome and KDE, though I may unload KDE. I like Gnome and IceWm. At any given, Linux rocks! You cannot alter Windows on your computer in any real effective way. In IceWm I can make the programs sit up and beg if need be. I'm also enjoying the flexibility of Bash from the cli. And now someone posts instructions for an application that freely checks for kernel updates and installs them, it has a gui to boot? Heck yeah! And get this, it can patch your kernel on the fly. I dare Windows to try that trick. Oh wait they can't. So hey, Linux kicks butt.