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bcmwl package

6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu6 fails when building on kernel 5.4.0-28-generic x86_64 (Ubuntu Groovy 20.10 dev.branch)

Bug #1876919 reported by Wladimir Mutel on 2020-05-05

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1878045: doing dist-upgrade got error related do Broadcom . Edit Remove

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	bcmwl (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Diagnostics from apt & dkms post-install :

Loading new bcmwl-6.30.223.271+bdcom DKMS files...
Building for 5.4.0-28-generic 5.4.0-29-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 5.4.0-28-generic
ERROR: Cannot create report: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/crash/bcmwl-kernel-source.0.crash'
Error! Application of patch 0028-add-support-for-linux-5.6.patch failed.
Check /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/ for more information.

Probably the patch 0028 adding kernel 5.6 support should not be applied during building on kernel 5.4
As I understand, right now Ubuntu Groovy is still at kernel 5.4, not 5.6

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2020-05-07:

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

Changed in bcmwl (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Revision history for this message

apt-ghetto (apt-ghetto) wrote on 2020-05-14:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1878045, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.