oss4-dkms 4.2-build2005-2ubuntu1: oss4 kernel module failed to build (cp: cannot stat `/lib/modules/3.2.0-23-generic/source/include/linux/limits.h': No such file or directory)

[lobo]

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ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: oss4-dkms
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
DKMSKernelVersion: 3.2.0-20-generic-pae
Date: Fri Mar 30 19:59:35 2012
PackageVersion: 4.2-build2005-2ubuntu1
SourcePackage: oss4
Title: oss4-dkms 4.2-build2005-2ubuntu1: oss4 kernel module failed to build

There is two reason
First, "limits.h" migrate from "xxx/include/linux" to "/include/uapi/linux" WHY ???

secundly the file "pci_wrapper.inc" in "/usr/src/oss4-4.2-build2005/drivers/"
contain wrong declarations and must be change like this

.....
/* static int __devinit */wrong !!!
static int
osspci_probe (struct pci_dev *pcidev, const struct pci_device_id *pciid)
{
.....
.....

/* static void __devexit */wrong !!!
static void
osspci_remove (struct pci_dev *pcidev)
{
.....

after doing the change, just run as root:

dkms install -m oss4/4.2-build2005

and reboot
Please can you correct this from deb sources SVP, THANK'S

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

This is pretty much a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oss4/+bug/601342

The patch has changed slightly though. Attached is the new version.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

@Ricardo: comment #3 contains a patch. Please do not remove the patch tag.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

Since it's a simple fix, I applied the patch and uploaded the package to my ppa: https://launchpad.net/~dtl131/+archive/ppa/+packages

(64-bit is still in the build queue)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Dave,

Please upload a debdiff so the ubuntu-sponsors team can get your fix into the next release
[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess]

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

There is no debdiff here to sponsor so I am unsubscribing the sponsors team.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

The real solution here is to sync a newer version of oss4 from Debian so that this bug (and others) is fixed in Ubuntu Raring/13.04 and later.

Debian bug link: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=587191

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

debdiff uploaded

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

Related bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oss4/+bug/1093270

[Mateusz Stachowski (stachowski-mateusz)]

I wonder if this will work with 3.7 and 3.8 kernels because for example NVIDIA and VirtualBox needed some fixes for building modules with those kernels.

The 3.7 kernels don't boot on my machine (known problem for AMD processors) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1077822

The 3.8rc2 from Ubuntu Mainline Kernels won't build modules for NVIDIA (Beta driver 313.09 from xorg-edgers PPA) so I can't test it either.

I'm also using self compiled package of OSSv4 because that way I have the freshest code (even though the last change was 10 moths ago) and I can enable Production quality resampler in vmix.

I know that version.h file was moved from:

/include/linux/version.h

to

/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h

Heads up - linux 3.7-rc* header file reorg - nV News Forums http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2578811#post2578811

I don't know if those changes affect also OSSv4 kernel modules building procedure but people that can actually boot kernels newer than 3.5 should check that before it will be too late for Raring / 13.04.

[Mateusz Stachowski (stachowski-mateusz)]

I installed today 3.8rc3 from Mainline Kernel PPA and finally it booted. There was no problem with OSSv4 building kernel modules but I'm using self created .deb package of 4.2 build 2007 from Mercurial repository.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Thanks for your patch! This is a Stable Release Update (SRU) request, therefore for it to be included in a stable release of Ubuntu, it must first be fixed in the development release (raring), as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure. I have created tasks for Raring, Quantal and Precise.

Can someone reproduce the problem on raring then either create a debdiff or perform a merge with what is in Debian and report back on if it fixes the problem? I am going to unsubscribe ubuntu-sponsors for now since the precise debdiff is blocked on this. Please feel free to resubscribe ubuntu-sponsors if there is something new to review.

Thanks again.

[asu (corcodel-marian)]

This file solve this bug

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

oss4 (4.2-build2007-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Revert changes from the previous NMU, it breaks more things
    than it fixes.
  * Until a *tested* patch is proposed, VMIX is now using
    fixed point arithmetic in the kernel.

[Mirko (jugal)]

Dear software Maintainers:
Are you aware that this 4-year-old bug right now affects installing the new hardware support of 12.04 and thus makes 12.04 unusable if you depend on oss4?

[fritz (friedrich-juergen)]

On 21.07.2014 07:33, Mirko wrote:
> Dear software Maintainers:
> Are you aware that this 4-year-old bug right now affects installing the new hardware support of 12.04 and thus makes 12.04 unusable if you depend on oss4?
>

Hello Mirko,

the errormessage doesn't come anymore. I don't know why.

The file

"pci_wrapper.inc" in"/usr/src/oss4-4.2-build2005/drivers/"

doesn't exists, only pci_wrapper.old

Fact is since the Update from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 the sound is not
working and the thermal config of the graphic-card come with an
errormessage while booting.(adress already in use).

So, the only right way is to save /home/* and to install with newest
Ubuntuversion.

If you want, you can close this bug report

best regards

Jürgen

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The Precise Pangolin has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release