So, while the postinst hook script still has code which never gets executed,
this is not really harmful as the dkms call itself prints the same and actually
does not return an error on a failure to build. Running the hook more often
than required also does not seem to be harmful. It actually helps to have any
nvidia driver after upgrades.
So I am closing this one as won't fix. Mario, if you feel to re-open it or pick
parts of this if you like.
** Changed in: dkms (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1427175
Title:
dkms postinst should handle missing headers
Status in dkms package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
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
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