as mentioned in the title all DKMS modules installed on my system won't be automatically rebuilt after a kernel upgrade.
# ls -la /var/lib/dkms/
total 32K
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4.0K May 26 11:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 86 root root 4.0K May 25 19:33 ..
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K May 25 18:56 anbox-modules-ashmem
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K May 25 18:57 anbox-modules-binder
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K May 2 18:34 bbswitch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Jul 8 2008 dkms_dbversion
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K May 26 11:55 nvidia-381
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K May 26 11:55 virtualbox
I always have to rebuild it manually after a kernel upgrade.
If there are any logs or configs needed to diagnose this problem I will supply them as soon as possible.
System information:
# lsb_release -a
LSB Version: core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch:printing-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:printing-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch
Distributor ID: neon
Description: KDE neon User Edition 5.9
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
# apt list dkms -a
Listing... Done
dkms/xenial-updates,xenial-updates,now 2.2.0.3-2ubuntu11.3 all [installed]
dkms/xenial,xenial 2.2.0.3-2ubuntu11 all
EDIT 1:
Removal of linux-image-4.8.0-52 log: https://pastebin.com/a0L6fbFj
Installation of linux-image-4.8.0-52 log: (N/A)
EDIT 2:
dkms status
:
# dkms status
Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file.
File: does not exist.
# cd /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-381/381.22/build
# ls -la dkms.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,2K Mai 26 11:54 dkms.conf
# dkms status
Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file.
File: does not exist.
ls -la /usr/src
:
# ls -la /usr/src/
total 44K
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4,0K Mai 26 16:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4,0K Apr 25 19:40 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K Apr 22 14:20 bbswitch-0.8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4,0K Apr 29 18:50 gmock
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4,0K Apr 29 18:50 gtest
drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4,0K Mai 16 18:39 linux-headers-4.4.0-78
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4,0K Mai 16 18:39 linux-headers-4.4.0-78-generic
drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4,0K Mai 25 19:42 linux-headers-4.8.0-53
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4,0K Mai 25 19:42 linux-headers-4.8.0-53-generic
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4,0K Mai 20 16:43 nvidia-381-381.22
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4,0K Mai 11 16:31 virtualbox-5.0.40
ls /usr/src/*/dkms.conf
:
# ls /usr/src/*/dkms.conf
/usr/src/bbswitch-0.8/dkms.conf /usr/src/nvidia-381-381.22/dkms.conf /usr/src/virtualbox-5.0.40/dkms.conf
Best Answer
From the comments...
There were multiple problems to solve.
we removed the
/usr/src/gmock
and/usr/src/gtest
as they weren't dkms software modules. If you need this software for some reason, either reinstall it, or create~/src
and put the gmock/gtest software there, and do the appropriatemake
commands (or whatever) to build that software.we removed the
/var/lib/dkms/anbox*
directories as they were missing their associated/usr/src/anbox*
source code due to an incomplete uninstall, and caused thedkms status
command to fail, looking for adkms.conf
file that didn't exist.the
dkms status
now correctly shows theinstalled
status of bbswitch, nividia, and virtualbox dkms softwares.future kernel upgrades should properly build/rebuild the remaining bbsswitch, nividia, and virtualbox dkms software modules.
we also checked that the virtualbox-dkms was the correct version for the installed virtualbox.