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If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you! ** Tags added: verification-needed-disco ** Tags added: verification-needed-xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1828084 Title: Kernel modules generated incorrectly when system is localized to a non-English language Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in linux source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Status in linux source package in Bionic: Fix Committed Status in linux source package in Cosmic: Fix Committed Status in linux source package in Disco: Fix Committed Bug description: When LANG is set to a non-English language with the relevant language pack installed, Kbuild's recordmcount.pl script fails to function correctly when building out-of-tree kernel modules on architectures that do not use the C version of recordmcount (e.g. ppc64le). This can result in invalid kernel modules being built. This was due to the non-C version of recordmcount relying on parsing the output of objdump(1), which can be localized. This is now fixed in the linux-kbuild tree with the following commit: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux- kbuild.git/commit/?h=kbuild&id=7b6954a982e7f60af38b835db52a06afc6e4b84c This commit is not in the torvalds/linux.git tree yet, but it would be good to backport the change to the Ubuntu kernel, particularly the linux-headers packages that are used for building out-of-tree kernel modules. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set LANG to a language other than English (e.g. ja_JP.UTF-8) 2. Make sure that the correct language pack is installed and that localization is working; for example, run a command expected to print an error message, like `cp` with no additional arguments. 3. Install the NVIDIA GPU driver Actual results: The kernel panics when loading the nvidia-modeset kernel module. Expected results: The driver should install and load normally. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1828084/+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
