[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#758485: dkms: "sed: -e expression #1, char 6: unknown command: `m'" when installing nvidia

Julian Gilbey jdg at debian.org
Mon Aug 18 01:09:39 UTC 2014


Package: dkms
Version: 2.2.0.3-1.2
Severity: normal

When updating nvidia-kernel-dkms, I observed the following:

Setting up nvidia-kernel-dkms (340.24-2) ...
Loading new nvidia-current-340.24 DKMS files...
Building for 3.14-1-amd64 and 3.14-2-amd64
Building initial module for 3.14-1-amd64
Done.

nvidia-current:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.14-1-amd64/updates/dkms/

nvidia-uvm.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.14-1-amd64/updates/dkms/

sed: -e expression #1, char 6: unknown command: `m'
/etc/modprobe.d/dkms.conf updated to replace obsoleted module references:
--- /tmp/dkms.rjH1xJ/dkms.conf.new   2014-08-18 02:00:17.230713067 +0100
+++ /etc/modprobe.d/dkms.conf        2011-12-07 20:33:28.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# modprobe information used for DKMS modules
+#
+# This is a stub file, should be edited when needed,
+# used by default by DKMS.
depmod.........

DKMS: install completed.
Building initial module for 3.14-2-amd64
Done.

nvidia-current:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.14-2-amd64/updates/dkms/

nvidia-uvm.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.14-2-amd64/updates/dkms/

sed: -e expression #1, char 6: unknown command: `m'
depmod........

DKMS: install completed.

I have not been able to identify the source of this sed error, sorry.

   Julian

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dkms depends on:
ii  build-essential    11.6
ii  coreutils          8.21-1.2
ii  dpkg-dev           1.17.10
ii  gcc                4:4.9.1-1
ii  make               4.0-8
ii  module-init-tools  18-1
ii  patch              2.7.1-6

Versions of packages dkms recommends:
ii  fakeroot                                 1.20.1-1
ii  linux-headers-amd64                      3.14+59
ii  linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 [linux-image]  3.2.60-1+deb7u3
ii  menu                                     2.1.47
ii  sudo                                     1.8.9p5-1

dkms suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/modprobe.d/dkms.conf changed:


-- no debconf information



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