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It should be very easy for users to test latest development kernels  
Written by Marcelo Ruiz the 24 Jan 12 at 07:40. Global category: Quality. New
Many times I submitted a bug I was requested to test the latest Ubuntu development kernel. Also, if the bug was triaged, the latest development kernel from Kernel.org.
The experience of building either of them is painful, especially for new users, and this discourage them to test whether a bug is present in either of those versions.
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Solution #1: Provide a tool similar to Kernel Check
Written by Marcelo Ruiz the 24 Jan 12 at 07:40.
Ubuntu should provide a tool (with a Graphical User Interface) to allow users to automatically build the new development kernels. It could be similar or based on Kernel Check:

http://kcheck.sourceforge.net/

The idea is to make the process completely transparent and painless to the end user.

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If Kernel does not match Userspace, weird problems occur  
Written by gmatht the 10 May 09 at 05:14. Global category: Quality. New
When a new kernel is installed, GRUB may not be updated to load the new kernel. One reason for this is if we have multiple distros installed, only one distro will update GRUB. So when the other distros update, they will still boot into the old kernel. The old kernel may have security bugs, and if we do a dist-upgrade the new userspace may assume the kernel has features that it doesn't have. It may take some time to determine that a kernel mismatch was the cause of these problems, see e.g. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/365798.
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Solution #1: Warn of Mismatch
Written by gmatht the 10 May 09 at 05:14.
It is easy to determine whether the kernel matches userspace using "uname -r". Ubuntu could warn the user if the kernel does not match userspace after start up.
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Solution #2: Update active GRUB.
Written by gmatht the 10 May 09 at 05:20.
Ubuntu could try to find the real boot partition, and update the GRUB on that partition. In many cases, this could prevent the mismatch from occurring. This could work together with Solution #1, as one way of detecting which GRUB is active would be to wait until we detect a mismatch, and then look for a boot partition that has the old kernel but not the new one.

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