[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#621846: Bug#621846: dkms looses list of modules to build
Michael Gilbert
michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com
Sat Apr 9 12:34:25 UTC 2011
Harald Dunkel wrote:
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> Package: dkms
> Version: 2.1.1.2-6
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> If I deinstall all linux-kernel-* packages (I know I shouldn't, but
Assuming you meant linux-image-* here.
> accidents happen) and then reinstall linux-image-2.6-amd64 and its
> dependencies, then dkms doesn't build any modules.
>
> # ls -l /var/lib/dkms/
> total 4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Jul 8 2008 dkms_dbversion
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> It seems to have lost its list of modules to build, even though no
> module source package has been changed or deinstalled. I have to
> manually run dpkg-reconfigure for the module source packages, and
> hope.
Did you remember to install the associated linux-headers package as
well? modules will not get built if the headers are not available.
Best wishes,
Mike
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