nvidia-173-kernel-source fails to install at intrepid

[Henrik Heino]

Binary package hint: nvidia-173-kernel-source

Package "nvidia-173-kernel-source" fails to install at Ubuntu Intrepid if package "patch" is not installed.

Solution: Package "patch" should be depedency of packge "nvidia-173-kernel-source"

The actual failure is because in file /usr/sbin/dkms at line 35, command "patch" is needed. The line looks like this:
33 . "$exitval_file"
34 else
35 eval $1; exitval=$?
36 fi
37 [ $exitval -gt 0 ] && echo -en "(bad exit status: $exitval)"

[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IGP2 [10de:01e0] (rev c1)
     Subsystem: EPoX Computer Co., Ltd. Device [1695:1000]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV35 [GeForce FX 5900XT] [10de:0332] (rev a1)
     Subsystem: LeadTek Research Inc. Device [107d:2975]

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

What version of Ubuntu are you running?

DKMS has the following "Recommends" dependencies:
Recommends: patch, make, fakeroot

therefore it's a bit weird that you're experiencing this problem. Mario might have a clue as to why this happened.

[Henrik Heino (henu)]

Yeah that package might be in recommended ones, but some of users turn recommended packages off. For example I have done that from options of Aptitude. If some package cannot be used without another one, then it should be more than just a recommendation.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

If the package in question using dkms needs to use patch to function,
then I would recommend that it is made into a depends for that
package. it will remain a recommends for dkms since not all dkms
packages actually need it to function.

On 03/15/2009, Henrik Heino <email address hidden> wrote:
> Yeah that package might be in recommended ones, but some of users turn
> recommended packages off. For example I have done that from options of
> Aptitude. If some package cannot be used without another one, then it
> should be more than just a recommendation.
>
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> nvidia-173-kernel-source fails to install at intrepid
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343320
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[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi henu,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (and maybe Xorg.0.log.old) file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

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[Henrik Heino (henu)]

I don't think PCI-devices or X.org configuration has anything to do with this, since it fails anyway if users does not have package "patch" and has recommended packages turned off. But here is my PCI-devices anyway.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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