By romeozor
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 Droplet that was upgraded from the previous LTS. I went ahead and used the DO Kernel menu to update my kernel which was 3.18something to 4.4.0-28. Did the shutdowns and restarts and I indeed have that kernel now.
However, I do seem to be missing some modules, ip_tables is the one I’m aware of, because UFW doesn’t seem to work because iptables doesn’t seem to work.
Tried googling for the problem, but every solution I find starts and ends with “update your kernel”.
I did make a snapshot before doing the kernel upgrade, so worst case I could fall back to that, but I went through all this because I wasn’t able to remove images from Docker, so I read I needed a new kernel for the overlay2 filesystem which was supposed to solve all my problems.
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I managed to solve this by first going to the Kernel menu on DO dashboard and resetting the original kernel (3.13…).
Then I followed the guide at How To Update a DigitalOcean Server’s Kernel. I set the DigitalOcean GrubLoader v0.2 as it suggested, although I’m not sure it was necessary.
I went to /lib/modules and checked what kernel versions where there. The highest was 4.4.0-53. Then following the guide above, I went ahead and updated my Grub boot loader config to boot into 4.4.0-53.
Everything is working now, including networking and Docker.
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