Ok, let me put something together to start trying in Vivid and then (if it looks good) we can work backwards from there.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to dkms in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1427175 Title: dkms postinst should handle missing headers Status in dkms package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: In the kernel post-install script of DKMS we have the following: if [ -x /usr/lib/dkms/dkms_autoinstaller ]; then exec /usr/lib/dkms/dkms_autoinstaller start $inst_kern > /dev/null fi if ! _check_kernel_dir $inst_kern ; then echo "dkms: WARNING: $kernel headers are missing, which may explain the above failures." >&2 echo " please install the $header_pkg package to fix this." >&2 fi Supposedly the intention is to produce a warning if the kernel-headers are missing (might also cause the overall exit code to be 0). But execution of this script stops and is replaced by the dkms_autoinstaller when using exec. So it probably should be: if [ -x /usr/lib/dkms/dkms_autoinstaller ]; then if ! /usr/lib/dkms/dkms_autoinstaller start $inst_kern > /dev/null; then if !_check_kernel_dir $inst_kern ; then ... To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dkms/+bug/1427175/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
