dahdi-dkms 1:2.5.0.1+dfsg-1ubuntu2: dahdi kernel module failed to build [wctdm.c:2587:22: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘wctdm_init_one’]

[Roger Tolhurst]

Description: Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch)
Release: 13.04

dahdi-2.5.0.1+dfsg-1ubuntu2

Building only for 3.8.0-7-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 3.8.0-7-generic
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.8.0-7-generic (x86_64)

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: dahdi-dkms 1:2.5.0.1+dfsg-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-7.15-generic 3.8.0
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
DKMSKernelVersion: 3.8.0-7-generic
Date: Wed Feb 27 08:33:16 2013
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
PackageVersion: 1:2.5.0.1+dfsg-1ubuntu2
SourcePackage: dahdi-linux
Title: dahdi-dkms 1:2.5.0.1+dfsg-1ubuntu2: dahdi kernel module failed to build
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Roger Tolhurst (roger-tolhurst)]

dahdi-2.5.0.1+dfsg-1ubuntu2 build also fails with Linux 3.8.0-8-generic x86_64 version

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Doug Haber (doug-e)]

The attached patch worked for me. Looks like newer versions of the kernel removed __devinit and asm/system.h. I don't really know what I'm doing but hopefully this helps other people too.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Maxim Kursin (m0ps)]

Thanks Doug, your patch is works well.
I'm wonder, why this bug is present more than one year and nobody fix package in repo %)

[Roger Tolhurst (roger-tolhurst)]

The package dahdi-dkms 1:2.5.0.1+dfsg-1ubuntu2 now installs on my architecture without error after a ystem upgrade to Ubuntu 13.10.

Prior to this upgrade I had been relying on manual installs of dahdi-linux-complete-current.tar.gz (available from http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux-complete/) after each successive kernal update of Ubuntu 13.04.
(Failure of ahdi-dkms 1:2.5.0.1+dfsg-1ubuntu2 to install was confrimed with each of the 13.04 kernel upgrades prior to using the manual install mentioned above.)

Unfortunately the 'patch' provided by Doug did not wrk for me, although it does appear to have worked for others.

From my point of view this bug is resolved upon upgrade to Ubuntu 13.10.

Roger Tolhurst

[deefactorial (deefactorial)]

If by chance you come accross this issue and you are running 12.04 LTS and upgrading to 13.10 is not an option try my bug report located at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1275918