Ubuntu
dkms package

dkms autoinstall does not respect kernel version parameter

Bug #948000 reported by Scott Moser
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dkms (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

/etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms is invoked by kernel installs as:
  /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms $INST_KERN

If /usr/lib/dkms/dkms_autoinstaller , /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms will :
   exec /usr/lib/dkms/dkms_autoinstaller start $inst_kern

/usr/lib/dkms/dkms_autoinstaller then invokes:
  dkms autoinstall --kernelver $kernel

But 'dkms autoinstall' does not take (or pay attention to) the --kernelver argument.

The result is that after a kernel upgrade, you
 * don't get modules built for your new kernel
 * build for other kernels than the one specified

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: dkms 2.2.0.3-1ubuntu1 [modified: usr/sbin/dkms]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.26-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 6 08:31:42 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110901)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dkms
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-06 (28 days ago)

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in dkms (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Jan Ivar Beddari (beddari) wrote :

So it is Confirmed, I'd say it's serious, but it is still set to Undecided ..

Anything I can do to help out here? In my case this bug results in my VMs failing to auto-rebuild their VirtualBox-modules.

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Adam Conrad (adconrad) wrote :

Are we sure this is a dkms issue, and not an issue of modules with incorrect dkms.conf setups? I certainly don't see it with the modules I use (I always get modules built for new kernels on postinst), so a concrete example would be nice.

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote :

this was very likely a dupe of bug 928007.
i would not be offended if this were closed as a dupe unless i could show otherwise.

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