[users] Re: dkms file missing error during boot

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On 8/19/07, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> > When my system was booting (a rare event), I saw a message about some
> > dkms file missing for Madwifi.
> 
> Chances are you upgraded the package at some point and some of the
> build files from the previous version were not removed.  DKMS
> continues to try to build the previous version because the build
> directory is still present, but fails because the upgrade removed the
> sources.
> 
> I've reported this with dkms-fuse at least once in the past; it
> wouldn't surprise me that madwifi has the same glitch.
> 
> Look in /var/lib/dkms, probably under /var/lib/dkms/madwifi, for
> directories related to older versions of the package, and remove
> those.  Just be sure NOT to remove any directories whose names match
> the most recent installed version.

I would report this to the DKMS mailinglist. Chances are they know about 
the issue and there is a simple work-around we could deploy with the 
package. Eg. cleanup the database during the boot.

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