dkms needs apport support

[Robbie Williamson]

Binary package hint: dkms

If a module fails to build, the error should be reported to the user after login via apport. Currently, the error is not reported at all, and the only way of knowing is either noticing hardware doesn't work (that needs the module) or reading /var/log/dkms_autoinstaller.

I ran into this issue during early Lucid development and only noticed it because my boot was longer than it should...because dkms was failing to build vboxdrv AT EVERY BOOT ;).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Nov 18 10:14:09 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: dkms 2.1.0.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-4.5-generic
SourcePackage: dkms
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-4-generic x86_64

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

http://linux.dell.com/git/?p=dkms.git;a=commit;h=1f4b4607b1456c18a9d10cde1823ecef71abcbd1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package dkms - 2.1.1.0-0ubuntu1

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dkms (2.1.1.0-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * New upstream version
  * dkms_autoinstall: Minor logic cleanups from submitted patches.
  * dkms_autoinstall: Run under dash since dkms.conf isn't sourced anymore.
  * dkms_autoinstall: Whitespace cleanup.
  * Convert DKMS to an upstart script that starts up before GDM or KDM can
    start. This ensures that drivers are built before X tries to start.
    (LP: #453365)
  * dkms_autoinstall: Rather than having if/else clauses all over the script,
    stub out any functions that aren't provided on Debian/Ubuntu when
    /etc/debian_version isn't present.
  * dkms_autoinstall: Exit immediately if this script is present but DKMS
    isn't anymore rather than sourcing functions and then exiting.
  * kernel_postinst.d_dkms: Launch the upstart script instead. In the process
    all output will be going to /var/log/dkms_autoinstaller (LP: #292606)
  * dkms_autoinstall: Don't ever output to stdout, even with kernel parameters.
  * dkms_autoinstall: Don't log the situation that we already have everything
    installed that needs to be.
  * dkms_autoinstall: Rather than logging to /var/log/dkms_autoinstaller,
    use logger to log to syslog during build and install.
  * dkms_autoinstall: Clean up the method to get arch. These hacks shouldn't
    be necessary. If you have problems with them gone, file a bug and we'll
    fix them more cleanly.
  * dkms_autoinstall: Notate the kernel we are building a module against
    when building it.
  * debian/rules: Don't attempt to stop DKMS on upgrades. It's a task, not
    a daemon, so stop wouldn't do anything.
  * Makefile: Install the old initscript to /usr/lib so that different distros
    can migrate to upstart at their leisure.
  * Makefile: Move any debian specific calls into the Makefile.
  * dkms: Revert the code that runs DKMS as the user "nobody".
    - It's causing problems with people with nonstandard PAM configs because it
      uses "su". (LP: #484725)
    - Also people have reported that nothing should be owned by 'nobody' per
      Debian & Ubuntu policy. This could have been fixed by creating a DKMS
      user, but that still wouldn't solve the problems with using 'su'.
  * dkms: Emit built-module MODULE=foo if initctl is available on the system
    after done building a module.
  * Add a special apport package-hook for when package builds fail to try
    to report them against the package providing that DKMS package.
    (LP: #484871)

  [ Alberto Milone ]
  * dkms_common.postinst: try to build the module for the most recent
    kernel in addition to building it for the current kernel (LP: #474917).

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * dkms_autoinstall: optimize with a single find call instead of multiple
    loops with ls. (LP: 3484386)
  * dkms_autoinstall: drop localization of the usage message - this is
    inconsistent with all other init scripts on the system.

  [ Pauli Virtanen ]
  * Remove dependence from environment's umask and certain environment
    variables. (LP: #438393, #436039)

  [ Giuseppe Iuculano ]
  * dkms_autoinstall: Correct the prov...