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dkms package

  1. Bug #830915
  2. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 830915

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spike speigel (frail-knight) wrote : Re: [Oneiric] Error during kernel upgrade: Could not locate dkms.conf file

Ok...For anyone with a Dell XPS 13 9360 who experiences an issue like this:

So I decided to purge and reinstall DKMS:

sudo apt-get purge dkms

BUT that removes all the following:

dkms hid-multitouch-dkms intel-hid-dkms intel-vbutton-dkms oem-audio-hda-daily-dkms virtualbox-dkms

I purged, then went in and manually deleted /var/ib/dkms and all its folders. I thought I could just copy/paste that line above with apt-get install to reinstall everything. I was wrong.

I have a Dell XPS 13 9360 Developer Edition laptop which has some Dell provided driver kernel modules.

oem-audio-hda-daily-dkms was available on their update repo. That was installed by apt-get just fine.

hid-multitouch-dkms intel-hid-dkms intel-vbutton-dkms were NOT available in their update repo. I had to pull those from the Dell OEM Recovery ISO they offer of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

I installed them using dpkg.

I then found the following to rebuild kernel modules:

ls /var/lib/initramfs-tools | \
    sudo xargs -n1 /usr/lib/dkms/dkms_autoinstaller start

All appears fine again, but what a pain!!!