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    From Henry Crun@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 7 18:03:42 2022
    Upgraded focal to jammy
    ran sudo apt update and sudo upgrade - 87 items updated/upgraded/installed during upgrade saw "Oracle" flashing by on several item names
    kernel name is now "5.15.0-1017-oracle"
    I have not nor have I ever had any use for Oracle.
    Any explanation would be gratefully accepted.

    Thanks,
    Mike

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 7 21:57:13 2022
    Am Mittwoch, 07. September 2022, um 18:03:42 Uhr schrieb Henry Crun:

    Upgraded focal to jammy
    ran sudo apt update and sudo upgrade - 87 items
    updated/upgraded/installed during upgrade saw "Oracle" flashing by on
    several item names kernel name is now "5.15.0-1017-oracle"
    I have not nor have I ever had any use for Oracle.
    Any explanation would be gratefully accepted.

    These are special kernels, they are not installed by default if you use
    the official desktop/server ISOs. Is that the case or did you use a
    special installer image, e.g. on a virtual machine?

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  • From Mike Easter@21:1/5 to Henry Crun on Wed Sep 7 14:19:39 2022
    Henry Crun wrote:
    Upgraded focal to jammy
    ran sudo apt update and sudo upgrade - 87 items updated/upgraded/installed during upgrade saw "Oracle" flashing by on several item names
    kernel name is now "5.15.0-1017-oracle"
    I have not nor have I ever had any use for Oracle.
    Any explanation would be gratefully accepted.

    There are plenty of 'oracle' related files in the Ub repo/s incl
    kernels. Maybe you installed something that has an oracle kernel
    dependency that you didn't realize.

    There are nvidia modules that require oracle kernel.

    I see in synaptic that there are other things which parts that want
    oracle stuff or mention oracle in the description, such as Java and Tomcat.

    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From Allodoxaphobia@21:1/5 to Mike Easter on Thu Sep 8 00:53:38 2022
    On Wed, 7 Sep 2022 14:19:39 -0700, Mike Easter wrote:
    Henry Crun wrote:
    Upgraded focal to jammy
    ran sudo apt update and sudo upgrade - 87 items updated/upgraded/installed >> during upgrade saw "Oracle" flashing by on several item names
    kernel name is now "5.15.0-1017-oracle"
    I have not nor have I ever had any use for Oracle.
    Any explanation would be gratefully accepted.

    There are plenty of 'oracle' related files in the Ub repo/s incl
    kernels. Maybe you installed something that has an oracle kernel
    dependency that you didn't realize.

    locate -i Oracle

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  • From stepore@21:1/5 to Allodoxaphobia on Wed Sep 7 19:30:31 2022
    On 9/7/22 17:53, Allodoxaphobia wrote:

    locate -i Oracle

    No need for capital O if you're using the -i (ignore-case) switch. :-)

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  • From Henry Crun@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Thu Sep 8 11:39:29 2022
    On 07/09/2022 22:57, Marco Moock wrote:
    Am Mittwoch, 07. September 2022, um 18:03:42 Uhr schrieb Henry Crun:

    Upgraded focal to jammy
    ran sudo apt update and sudo upgrade - 87 items
    updated/upgraded/installed during upgrade saw "Oracle" flashing by on
    several item names kernel name is now "5.15.0-1017-oracle"
    I have not nor have I ever had any use for Oracle.
    Any explanation would be gratefully accepted.

    These are special kernels, they are not installed by default if you use
    the official desktop/server ISOs. Is that the case or did you use a
    special installer image, e.g. on a virtual machine?


    @Marco:
    Originally had - to the best of my knowlege - vanilla 20.04.
    Clicked on "Upgrade" and stood back. IIRC had to choose when installation asked whether to update issue.net,
    other than that nothing comes to mind.

    @Mike Easter:
    My original 20.04 had no mention of oracle IIRC.
    To my best recollection, I have never installed anything related to Oracle (I may of course be remembering wrong) and/or
    nvidia

    @Allodoxaphobia:
    I ran "locate -i oracle" into a file.
    It's almost 71,000 lines.
    I'm including the head and tail
    <head>
    /boot/System.map-5.15.0-1016-oracle
    /boot/System.map-5.15.0-1017-oracle
    /boot/config-5.15.0-1016-oracle
    /boot/config-5.15.0-1017-oracle
    /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-1016-oracle
    /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-1017-oracle
    /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-1016-oracle
    /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-1017-oracle /usr/lib/modprobe.d/blacklist_linux-oracle_5.15.0-1016-oracle.conf /usr/lib/modprobe.d/blacklist_linux-oracle_5.15.0-1017-oracle.conf
    </head>

    <tail>
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-1017-oracle.postinst /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-1017-oracle.postrm /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-oracle-headers-5.15.0-1016.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-oracle-headers-5.15.0-1016.md5sums /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-oracle-headers-5.15.0-1017.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-oracle-headers-5.15.0-1017.md5sums /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-oracle.list
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-oracle.md5sums /var/lib/dpkg/triggers/linux-update-5.15.0-1016-oracle /var/lib/dpkg/triggers/linux-update-5.15.0-1017-oracle
    <tail>

    There seems to be a mixture of versions.
    Could it be because some versions ago I installed HWE?
    has this happend to anyone else?

    As before, all insights gratefully accepted

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  • From Anssi Saari@21:1/5 to Henry Crun on Thu Sep 8 13:00:17 2022
    Henry Crun <[email protected]> writes:

    My original 20.04 had no mention of oracle IIRC.
    To my best recollection, I have never installed anything related to
    Oracle (I may of course be remembering wrong) and/or nvidia

    You can use apt-file search or dpkg -S to find which package brought in
    some file. Or maybe run apt list --installed|grep oracle to see which
    installed packages have oracle in the name. Then aptitude why may hint
    at why that specific package was installed.

    FTR, my little Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed on a Raspberry Pi doesn't seem
    to have oracle anything.

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 8 12:25:58 2022
    Am Donnerstag, 08. September 2022, um 13:00:17 Uhr schrieb Anssi Saari:

    FTR, my little Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed on a Raspberry Pi doesn't
    seem to have oracle anything.

    It is a special kernel, bot installed by default.

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  • From Henry Crun@21:1/5 to Anssi Saari on Thu Sep 8 14:40:18 2022
    On 08/09/2022 13:00, Anssi Saari wrote:
    Henry Crun <[email protected]> writes:

    My original 20.04 had no mention of oracle IIRC.
    To my best recollection, I have never installed anything related to
    Oracle (I may of course be remembering wrong) and/or nvidia

    You can use apt-file search or dpkg -S to find which package brought in
    some file. Or maybe run apt list --installed|grep oracle to see which installed packages have oracle in the name. Then aptitude why may hint
    at why that specific package was installed.

    FTR, my little Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed on a Raspberry Pi doesn't seem
    to have oracle anything.

    More data points:
    Rebooted (via grub menu) to original 22.04.1 (First install after upgrade from 20.04.2 )
    ran uname -r
    and saw "5.15.0-47-generic" -- No mention of oracle.

    After running sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade
    I now see in the current kernel running uname -r "5.15.0-1017-oracle"
    ...Huh??

    Output of apt list --installed | grep oracle as follows:
    <quote>
    $ apt list --installed | grep oracle

    WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

    linux-headers-5.15.0-1016-oracle/jammy-security,jammy-updates,now 5.15.0-1016.20 amd64 [installed,automatic]
    linux-headers-5.15.0-1017-oracle/jammy-security,jammy-updates,now 5.15.0-1017.22 amd64 [installed,automatic]
    linux-headers-oracle/jammy-security,jammy-updates,now 5.15.0.1017.15 amd64 [installed,automatic]
    linux-image-5.15.0-1016-oracle/jammy-security,jammy-updates,now 5.15.0-1016.20 amd64 [installed,automatic]
    linux-image-5.15.0-1017-oracle/jammy-security,jammy-updates,now 5.15.0-1017.22 amd64 [installed,automatic]
    linux-image-oracle/jammy-security,jammy-updates,now 5.15.0.1017.15 amd64 [installed,automatic]
    linux-modules-5.15.0-1016-oracle/jammy-security,jammy-updates,now 5.15.0-1016.20 amd64 [installed,automatic]
    linux-modules-5.15.0-1017-oracle/jammy-security,jammy-updates,now 5.15.0-1017.22 amd64 [installed,automatic]
    linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-1016-oracle/jammy-security,jammy-updates,now 5.15.0-1016.20 amd64 [installed,automatic]
    linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-1017-oracle/jammy-security,jammy-updates,now 5.15.0-1017.22 amd64 [installed,automatic]
    linux-oracle-headers-5.15.0-1016/jammy-security,jammy-security,jammy-updates,jammy-updates,now 5.15.0-1016.20 all
    [installed,automatic] linux-oracle-headers-5.15.0-1017/jammy-security,jammy-security,jammy-updates,jammy-updates,now 5.15.0-1017.22 all
    [installed,automatic]
    linux-oracle/jammy-security,jammy-updates,now 5.15.0.1017.15 amd64 [installed] </quote>

    Definitely nothing I have ever asked for, or needed
    And by the way, there were no signs of oracle (IIRC) in any 20.04.* version
    If I get desperate, I might just resume using the original 22.04.1, I guess. But other than the puzzle I see no
    ill-effects (yet) from the new misnamed kernel.

    Still hoping...
    Mike

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  • From Henry Crun@21:1/5 to Andrei Z. on Thu Sep 8 14:57:09 2022
    On 08/09/2022 14:22, Andrei Z. wrote:
    Mike Easter wrote:
    Henry Crun wrote:
    Upgraded focal to jammy
    ran sudo apt update and sudo upgrade - 87 items updated/upgraded/installed >>> during upgrade saw "Oracle" flashing by on several item names
    kernel name is now "5.15.0-1017-oracle"
    I have not nor have I ever had any use for Oracle.
    Any explanation would be gratefully accepted.

    There are plenty of 'oracle' related files in the Ub repo/s incl kernels.  Maybe you installed something that has an
    oracle kernel dependency that you didn't realize.

    There are nvidia modules that require oracle kernel.

    I see in synaptic that there are other things which parts that want oracle stuff or mention oracle in the description,
    such as Java and Tomcat.

    Search the first oracle in
    /var/log/apt/history.log
    /var/log/apt/term.log
    /var/log/dpkg.log



    You mean like this?

    <quote>

    ~$ grep -i oracle /var/log/apt/history.log | head -n1
    Install: linux-oracle-headers-5.15.0-1017:amd64 (5.15.0-1017.22, automatic), linux-image-5.15.0-47-generic:amd64
    (5.15.0-47.51, automatic), linux-headers-5.15.0-47-generic:amd64 (5.15.0-47.51, automatic),
    linux-image-generic-hwe-22.04:amd64 (5.15.0.47.47, automatic), linux-image-5.15.0-1017-oracle:amd64 (5.15.0-1017.22,
    automatic), linux-modules-5.15.0-47-generic:amd64 (5.15.0-47.51, automatic), linux-modules-5.15.0-1017-oracle:amd64
    (5.15.0-1017.22, automatic), linux-headers-generic-hwe-22.04:amd64 (5.15.0.47.47, automatic),
    linux-generic-hwe-22.04:amd64 (5.15.0.47.47, automatic), linux-headers-5.15.0-47:amd64 (5.15.0-47.51, automatic),
    linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-47-generic:amd64 (5.15.0-47.51, automatic), linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-1017-oracle:amd64
    (5.15.0-1017.22, automatic), linux-headers-5.15.0-1017-oracle:amd64 (5.15.0-1017.22, automatic)
    ~$
    ~$
    ~$ grep -i oracle /var/log/apt/term.log | head -n1
    Selecting previously unselected package linux-oracle-headers-5.15.0-1017.
    ~$
    ~$
    ~$
    ~$ grep -i oracle /var/log/dpkg.log | head -n1
    2022-09-07 16:44:01 install linux-oracle-headers-5.15.0-1017:all <none> 5.15.0-1017.22
    ~$
    </quote>

    Thanks,
    Mike

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  • From Andrei Z.@21:1/5 to Mike Easter on Thu Sep 8 14:22:30 2022
    Mike Easter wrote:
    Henry Crun wrote:
    Upgraded focal to jammy
    ran sudo apt update and sudo upgrade - 87 items
    updated/upgraded/installed
    during upgrade saw "Oracle" flashing by on several item names
    kernel name is now "5.15.0-1017-oracle"
    I have not nor have I ever had any use for Oracle.
    Any explanation would be gratefully accepted.

    There are plenty of 'oracle' related files in the Ub repo/s incl
    kernels.  Maybe you installed something that has an oracle kernel
    dependency that you didn't realize.

    There are nvidia modules that require oracle kernel.

    I see in synaptic that there are other things which parts that want
    oracle stuff or mention oracle in the description, such as Java and Tomcat.

    Search the first oracle in
    /var/log/apt/history.log
    /var/log/apt/term.log
    /var/log/dpkg.log

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  • From Andrei Z.@21:1/5 to Henry Crun on Thu Sep 8 15:49:55 2022
    Henry Crun wrote:
    On 08/09/2022 14:22, Andrei Z. wrote:
    Mike Easter wrote:
    Henry Crun wrote:
    Upgraded focal to jammy
    ran sudo apt update and sudo upgrade - 87 items
    updated/upgraded/installed
    during upgrade saw "Oracle" flashing by on several item names
    kernel name is now "5.15.0-1017-oracle"
    I have not nor have I ever had any use for Oracle.
    Any explanation would be gratefully accepted.

    There are plenty of 'oracle' related files in the Ub repo/s incl
    kernels.  Maybe you installed something that has an oracle kernel
    dependency that you didn't realize.

    There are nvidia modules that require oracle kernel.

    I see in synaptic that there are other things which parts that want
    oracle stuff or mention oracle in the description, such as Java and
    Tomcat.

    Search the first oracle in
    /var/log/apt/history.log
    /var/log/apt/term.log
    /var/log/dpkg.log



    You mean like this?

    <quote>

    ~$ grep -i oracle /var/log/apt/history.log | head -n1
    Install: linux-oracle-headers-5.15.0-1017:amd64 (5.15.0-1017.22,
    automatic), linux-image-5.15.0-47-generic:amd64 (5.15.0-47.51,
    automatic), linux-headers-5.15.0-47-generic:amd64 (5.15.0-47.51,
    automatic), linux-image-generic-hwe-22.04:amd64 (5.15.0.47.47,
    automatic), linux-image-5.15.0-1017-oracle:amd64 (5.15.0-1017.22,
    automatic), linux-modules-5.15.0-47-generic:amd64 (5.15.0-47.51,
    automatic), linux-modules-5.15.0-1017-oracle:amd64 (5.15.0-1017.22, automatic), linux-headers-generic-hwe-22.04:amd64 (5.15.0.47.47,
    automatic), linux-generic-hwe-22.04:amd64 (5.15.0.47.47, automatic), linux-headers-5.15.0-47:amd64 (5.15.0-47.51, automatic), linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-47-generic:amd64 (5.15.0-47.51, automatic), linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-1017-oracle:amd64 (5.15.0-1017.22,
    automatic), linux-headers-5.15.0-1017-oracle:amd64 (5.15.0-1017.22, automatic)
    ~$
    ~$
    ~$ grep -i oracle /var/log/apt/term.log | head -n1
    Selecting previously unselected package linux-oracle-headers-5.15.0-1017.
    ~$
    ~$
    ~$
    ~$ grep -i oracle /var/log/dpkg.log | head -n1
    2022-09-07 16:44:01 install linux-oracle-headers-5.15.0-1017:all <none> 5.15.0-1017.22
    ~$
    </quote>

    Thanks,
    Mike

    I would open e.g. /var/log/dpkg.log, /var/log/dpkg.log.1 in a text
    editor to see what happened before the first "oracle" appearance.

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  • From Aragorn@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 8 16:04:41 2022
    On 08.09.2022 at 14:26, mechanic scribbled:

    On Wed, 7 Sep 2022 18:03:42 +0300, Henry Crun wrote:

    Upgraded focal to jammy ran sudo apt update and sudo upgrade - 87
    items updated/upgraded/installed during upgrade saw "Oracle"
    flashing by on several item names kernel name is now
    "5.15.0-1017-oracle" I have not nor have I ever had any use for
    Oracle. Any explanation would be gratefully accepted.

    What's the problem with Oracle? It's all open source, right?

    Yes, but Oracle is a company name, and I guess it makes some people
    freak out.

    Linux and GNU are perceived as "democratic" names — they belong
    to "the community" — and so when people see the name of a (very big, powerful and not very loved or trusted) corporation fly by, they may
    assume that they're now running something that's controlled and/or
    owned by said company, as opposed to by the community.

    It's all about perception. People often forget that btrfs is being
    developed and maintained by Oracle, and that this was already the case
    before Oracle bought Sun Microsystems and obtained ownership of the zfs
    code base.

    (zfs is Free Software, but its CDDL license is considered incompatible
    with the GPL because it allows for proprietarization. Having one and
    the same company develop both btrfs and zfs, with both of those
    filesystems being very similar in features, gave some people the idea
    that btrfs would have been phased out and replaced by a possibly
    GPL-licensed version of the older and — at that time — more mature zfs,
    but Oracle had other plans, and what they did to MySQL and OpenSolaris
    did not exactly instill confidence in the company among the FLOSS
    community.)

    --
    With respect,
    = Aragorn =

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  • From mechanic@21:1/5 to Henry Crun on Thu Sep 8 14:26:12 2022
    On Wed, 7 Sep 2022 18:03:42 +0300, Henry Crun wrote:

    Upgraded focal to jammy ran sudo apt update and sudo upgrade - 87
    items updated/upgraded/installed during upgrade saw "Oracle"
    flashing by on several item names kernel name is now
    "5.15.0-1017-oracle" I have not nor have I ever had any use for
    Oracle. Any explanation would be gratefully accepted.

    Thanks, Mike

    What's the problem with Oracle? It's all open source, right?

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Aragorn on Thu Sep 8 10:53:46 2022
    On 9/8/2022 10:04 AM, Aragorn wrote:
    On 08.09.2022 at 14:26, mechanic scribbled:

    On Wed, 7 Sep 2022 18:03:42 +0300, Henry Crun wrote:

    Upgraded focal to jammy ran sudo apt update and sudo upgrade - 87
    items updated/upgraded/installed during upgrade saw "Oracle"
    flashing by on several item names kernel name is now
    "5.15.0-1017-oracle" I have not nor have I ever had any use for
    Oracle. Any explanation would be gratefully accepted.

    What's the problem with Oracle? It's all open source, right?

    Yes, but Oracle is a company name, and I guess it makes some people
    freak out.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanai

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Larry_Ellison_picture.png/330px-Larry_Ellison_picture.png

    Stay well away from his gripping hand :-)

    That's why seeing his kernel sneak into your machine,
    yeah, that's freaky. It's like finding Windows 11 running
    a Bash shell and graphical Linux.

    [Picture]

    https://i.postimg.cc/B6cyJBnL/W11-bash-oooh.gif

    The corporations smell blood in the water, and now
    they're circling. Yes, it's the year of the Linux desktop,
    complete with Windows logo.

    Soon, Dow Chemical will submit a kernel. I have foreseen it.

    Paul

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 9 07:42:57 2022
    Am Mittwoch, 07. September 2022, um 18:03:42 Uhr schrieb Henry Crun:

    Upgraded focal to jammy
    ran sudo apt update and sudo upgrade - 87 items
    updated/upgraded/installed during upgrade saw "Oracle" flashing by on
    several item names kernel name is now "5.15.0-1017-oracle"
    I have not nor have I ever had any use for Oracle.
    Any explanation would be gratefully accepted.

    We discussed that topic in de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc. These kernels
    are intended to run on special virtualized environments in the cloud of specific vendors, like Oracle. They don't contain all kernel modules
    because there is only a small amount of emulated hardware.

    https://ubuntu.com/blog/cloud-optimized-linux-kernels

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  • From Andrei Z.@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Fri Sep 9 12:10:06 2022
    Marco Moock wrote:
    Am Mittwoch, 07. September 2022, um 18:03:42 Uhr schrieb Henry Crun:

    Upgraded focal to jammy
    ran sudo apt update and sudo upgrade - 87 items
    updated/upgraded/installed during upgrade saw "Oracle" flashing by on
    several item names kernel name is now "5.15.0-1017-oracle"
    I have not nor have I ever had any use for Oracle.
    Any explanation would be gratefully accepted.

    We discussed that topic in de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc. These kernels
    are intended to run on special virtualized environments in the cloud of specific vendors, like Oracle. They don't contain all kernel modules
    because there is only a small amount of emulated hardware.

    https://ubuntu.com/blog/cloud-optimized-linux-kernels

    $ apt show linux-image-oracle
    Package: linux-image-oracle
    ..
    Provides: virtualbox-guest-modules (= 5.15.0-1017), wireguard-modules (= 1.0.0), zfs-modules (= 2.1.4-0ubuntu0.1)
    Depends: linux-image-5.15.0-1017-oracle,
    linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-1017-oracle
    ..
    Description: Linux kernel image for Oracle systems.
    This package will always depend on the latest kernel image available for
    Oracle systems.

    $ apt show linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-1017-oracle
    ..
    Geared toward Oracle Cloud systems.

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  • From Henry Crun@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Fri Sep 9 11:40:03 2022
    On 09/09/2022 8:42, Marco Moock wrote:
    Am Mittwoch, 07. September 2022, um 18:03:42 Uhr schrieb Henry Crun:

    Upgraded focal to jammy
    ran sudo apt update and sudo upgrade - 87 items
    updated/upgraded/installed during upgrade saw "Oracle" flashing by on
    several item names kernel name is now "5.15.0-1017-oracle"
    I have not nor have I ever had any use for Oracle.
    Any explanation would be gratefully accepted.

    We discussed that topic in de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc. These kernels
    are intended to run on special virtualized environments in the cloud of specific vendors, like Oracle. They don't contain all kernel modules
    because there is only a small amount of emulated hardware.

    https://ubuntu.com/blog/cloud-optimized-linux-kernels


    Finally got rid of the problem
    (Not solved it, just got rid of it)

    Luckily stil had the vanilla post-upgrade from focal in the grub menu,
    booted from that and with Google's help removed two versions (*1016* & *1017*) by running apt purge
    also purged all linux-headers-oracle
    before rebooting ran update-grub
    grub menu now holds one entry: 5.15.0-47-generic (and Advanced sub-menu for the same) and boots well.
    Ran sudo apt update and ... nothing significant (a few php updates)

    Still don't know what caused the problem, especially as the linux-oracle kernel would appear to be optimized for cloud use.
    Hopefully all is back to norbal (sic)

    Many thanks to all who responded. This newsgroup really is the finest resource!!

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  • From Andrei Z.@21:1/5 to Andrei Z. on Fri Sep 9 12:20:02 2022
    Andrei Z. wrote:
    Marco Moock wrote:
    Am Mittwoch, 07. September 2022, um 18:03:42 Uhr schrieb Henry Crun:

    Upgraded focal to jammy
    ran sudo apt update and sudo upgrade - 87 items
    updated/upgraded/installed during upgrade saw "Oracle" flashing by on
    several item names kernel name is now "5.15.0-1017-oracle"
    I have not nor have I ever had any use for Oracle.
    Any explanation would be gratefully accepted.

    We discussed that topic in de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc. These kernels
    are intended to run on special virtualized environments in the cloud of
    specific vendors, like Oracle. They don't contain all kernel modules
    because there is only a small amount of emulated hardware.

    https://ubuntu.com/blog/cloud-optimized-linux-kernels

    $ apt show linux-image-oracle
    Package: linux-image-oracle
    ..
    Provides: virtualbox-guest-modules (= 5.15.0-1017), wireguard-modules (= 1.0.0), zfs-modules (= 2.1.4-0ubuntu0.1)
    Depends: linux-image-5.15.0-1017-oracle, linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-1017-oracle
    ..
    Description: Linux kernel image for Oracle systems.
    This package will always depend on the latest kernel image available for Oracle systems.

    $ apt show linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-1017-oracle
    ..
    Geared toward Oracle Cloud systems.

    $ apt show linux-oracle
    Package: linux-oracle
    ..
    Provides: kernel-testing--linux-oracle--full--oracle, kernel-testing--linux-oracle--full--preferred
    Depends: linux-image-oracle (= 5.15.0.1017.15), linux-headers-oracle (= 5.15.0.1017.15)
    ..
    Description: Complete Linux kernel for Oracle systems.
    This package will always depend on the latest complete Linux kernel
    available for Oracle systems.

    Is linux-oracle installed?

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  • From Henry Crun@21:1/5 to Andrei Z. on Fri Sep 9 12:46:00 2022
    On 09/09/2022 12:20, Andrei Z. wrote:
    Andrei Z. wrote:
    Marco Moock wrote:
    Am Mittwoch, 07. September 2022, um 18:03:42 Uhr schrieb Henry Crun:

    Upgraded focal to jammy
    ran sudo apt update and sudo upgrade - 87 items
    updated/upgraded/installed during upgrade saw "Oracle" flashing by on
    several item names kernel name is now "5.15.0-1017-oracle"
    I have not nor have I ever had any use for Oracle.
    Any explanation would be gratefully accepted.

    We discussed that topic in de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc. These kernels
    are intended to run on special virtualized environments in the cloud of
    specific vendors, like Oracle. They don't contain all kernel modules
    because there is only a small amount of emulated hardware.

    https://ubuntu.com/blog/cloud-optimized-linux-kernels

    $ apt show linux-image-oracle
    Package: linux-image-oracle
    ..
    Provides: virtualbox-guest-modules (= 5.15.0-1017), wireguard-modules (= 1.0.0), zfs-modules (= 2.1.4-0ubuntu0.1)
    Depends: linux-image-5.15.0-1017-oracle, linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-1017-oracle
    ..
    Description: Linux kernel image for Oracle systems.
    This package will always depend on the latest kernel image available for Oracle systems.

    $ apt show linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-1017-oracle
    ..
    Geared toward Oracle Cloud systems.

    $ apt show linux-oracle
    Package: linux-oracle
    ..
    Provides: kernel-testing--linux-oracle--full--oracle, kernel-testing--linux-oracle--full--preferred
    Depends: linux-image-oracle (= 5.15.0.1017.15), linux-headers-oracle (= 5.15.0.1017.15)
    ..
    Description: Complete Linux kernel for Oracle systems.
    This package will always depend on the latest complete Linux kernel available for Oracle systems.

    Is linux-oracle installed?


    Not any more.
    it was among the packages purged

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  • From Andrei Z.@21:1/5 to Henry Crun on Fri Sep 9 16:29:38 2022
    Henry Crun wrote:
    On 09/09/2022 12:20, Andrei Z. wrote:
    Andrei Z. wrote:
    Marco Moock wrote:
    Am Mittwoch, 07. September 2022, um 18:03:42 Uhr schrieb Henry Crun:

    Upgraded focal to jammy
    ran sudo apt update and sudo upgrade - 87 items
    updated/upgraded/installed during upgrade saw "Oracle" flashing by on >>>>> several item names kernel name is now "5.15.0-1017-oracle"
    I have not nor have I ever had any use for Oracle.
    Any explanation would be gratefully accepted.

    We discussed that topic in de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc. These kernels
    are intended to run on special virtualized environments in the cloud of >>>> specific vendors, like Oracle. They don't contain all kernel modules
    because there is only a small amount of emulated hardware.

    https://ubuntu.com/blog/cloud-optimized-linux-kernels

    $ apt show linux-image-oracle
    Package: linux-image-oracle
    ..
    Provides: virtualbox-guest-modules (= 5.15.0-1017), wireguard-modules
    (= 1.0.0), zfs-modules (= 2.1.4-0ubuntu0.1)
    Depends: linux-image-5.15.0-1017-oracle,
    linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-1017-oracle
    ..
    Description: Linux kernel image for Oracle systems.
    This package will always depend on the latest kernel image available
    for Oracle systems.

    $ apt show linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-1017-oracle
    ..
    Geared toward Oracle Cloud systems.

    $ apt show linux-oracle
    Package: linux-oracle
    ..
    Provides: kernel-testing--linux-oracle--full--oracle,
    kernel-testing--linux-oracle--full--preferred
    Depends: linux-image-oracle (= 5.15.0.1017.15), linux-headers-oracle
    (= 5.15.0.1017.15)
    ..
    Description: Complete Linux kernel for Oracle systems.
    This package will always depend on the latest complete Linux kernel
    available for Oracle systems.

    Is linux-oracle installed?


    Not any more.
    it was among the packages purged


    To check if there is installed "oracle" package

    $ apt search oracle | grep ^i

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