Karmic is past End of Life, and is no longer supported. As such, this bug is being marked "Won't Fix" against the Karmic bug task.
-- 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/438398 Title: DKMS build fails, but package upgrade still successful Status in “dkms” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-180” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “dkms” source package in Karmic: Invalid Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-180” source package in Karmic: New Bug description: The nvidia-185-kernel-source (185.18.36-0ubuntu3) package upgrade succeeds, even though the DKMS build fails. I believe the package should not be marked as configured in this case, especially as otherwise the user will notice the problem only on the next boot. Example failure case (due to DKMS bug #438393): ----------------- Configuring: nvidia-185-kernel-source (185.18.36-0ubuntu3) ... Removing all DKMS Modules Done. Adding Module to DKMS build system driver version= 185.18.36 Doing initial module build Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.31-11-generic (i686) Consult the make.log in the build directory /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/185.18.36/build/ for more information. Installing initial module Error! Could not locate nvidia.ko for module nvidia in the DKMS tree. You must run a dkms build for kernel 2.6.31-11-generic (i686) first. Done. ----------------- Extract from make.log ----------------- DKMS make.log for nvidia-185.18.36 for kernel 2.6.31-11-generic (i686) ti 29.9.2009 00.03.29 +0300 The C compiler '/home/pauli/bin/gcc-cached' does not appear to be able to create executables. Please make sure you have your Linux distribution's libc development package installed and that '/home/pauli/bin/gcc-cached' is a valid C compiler name. *** Failed CC sanity check. Bailing out! *** make: *** [select_makefile] Virhe 1 ----------------- To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dkms/+bug/438398/+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
