broadcom-sta-dkms not installed post-installation

[Brian Murray]

With the fix for bug 2013236 the broadcom-sta-dkms driver was installed during the installation process (see the syslog file from /var/log/installer/) but after rebooting the system the driver was no longer installed. I suspect ubiquity cleaned it up for some reason.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-5.5-generic 6.5.0
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-5-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Oct 1 07:26:48 2023
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-09-30 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu Legacy 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur" - Daily amd64 (20230930)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

From the installed system:

bdmurray@bdmurray-Standard-PC-Q35-ICH9-2009:~$ ubuntu-drivers list
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
broadcom-sta-dkms, (kernel modules provided by broadcom-sta-dkms)
bdmurray@bdmurray-Standard-PC-Q35-ICH9-2009:~$ apt-cache policy broadcom-sta-dkms
broadcom-sta-dkms:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 6.30.223.271-23ubuntu1
  Version table:
     6.30.223.271-23ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic/restricted amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic/restricted i386 Packages
bdmurray@bdmurray-Standard-PC-Q35-ICH9-2009:~$ lsmod | grep b43
b43 577536 0
cordic 12288 1 b43
mac80211 1724416 1 b43
cfg80211 1314816 2 b43,mac80211
ssb 102400 1 b43
bcma 86016 1 b43
bdmurray@bdmurray-Standard-PC-Q35-ICH9-2009:~$ sudo dmesg | grep b43
[sudo] password for bdmurray:
[ 2.523220] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4352 WLAN found (core revision 42)
[ 2.523634] b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 12, Type 11 (AC), Revision 1)
[ 2.523641] b43: probe of bcma0:1 failed with error -95

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

i wonder if we forgot to somewhere use apt-install or mark installed.

Cause that seems to be installing things on the host only, and not in target. So i expected normally _two_ installs not one.

Also dpkg transaction failed, what's wrong with locales?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I tested this again today with Ubuntu Legacy 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur" - Daily amd64 (20231002) and all was well post-reboot.

bdmurray@bdmurray-Standard-PC-Q35-ICH9-2009:~$ apt-cache policy broadcom-sta-dkms
broadcom-sta-dkms:
  Installed: 6.30.223.271-23ubuntu1
  Candidate: 6.30.223.271-23ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 6.30.223.271-23ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic/restricted amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic/restricted i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
bdmurray@bdmurray-Standard-PC-Q35-ICH9-2009:~$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp1s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 52:54:00:6d:6b:73 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.122.135/24 brd 192.168.122.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute enp1s0
       valid_lft 3547sec preferred_lft 3547sec
    inet6 fe80::e7ca:641f:8c38:7c80/64 scope link noprefixroute
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wlp5s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DORMANT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 70:8b:cd:2e:6b:f8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
bdmurray@bdmurray-Standard-PC-Q35-ICH9-2009:~$ sudo dmesg | grep b43
[sudo] password for bdmurray:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I also tested this with a "Ubuntu 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur" - Daily amd64 (20231003)" image and the broadcom-sta-dkms package was properly installed so I'm going to set this to Incomplete and let it time out if nobody else has issues.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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