Further to the question/comment “WINE FAILURE today”:
The upgrade to kernel 3.13-59 was problematic. Following advice I upgraded my kernel to 3.19-25 which overcame my problem. Shortly afterwards version 3.13-61 was released (kudos to those involved for their speed – “everyone has problems, the important thing is the way they are dealt with”), that too cures my problem. I am currently running 2.19-25 but I am also getting upgrades in the 3.13 series.
Given that my main requirement is for a system as stable as possible, am I better to stay with 3.19 or revert to 3.13?
Further, I assume I will keep getting upgrades to both the 32.13 and 3.19 series. How do I stop the “unwanted” ones being downloaded? (I'm relatively new to this game, please be as explicit as possible.)
Thanks for any help
To stop installing 3.13 upgrades you can run in terminal
You can also install Synaptic
and remove linux image and headers packages of version 3.13, that may not be removed at the previous step.