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blcr-dkms fails to build when updating

Asked by Richard Klein

Hi,

When running `sudo apt-get dist-upgrade` I constantly get the following error message. This has happened for a while now over a few updates.

...
------------------------------
Deleting module version: 0.8.2
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
Unpacking replacement blcr-dkms ...
Setting up blcr-dkms (0.8.2-15ubuntu2.1) ...

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/blcr/0.8.2/source ->
                 /usr/src/blcr-0.8.2

DKMS: add completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area....
make KERNELRELEASE=3.2.0-24-generic -C /lib/modules/3.2.0-24-generic/build M=/var/lib/dkms/blcr/0.8.2/build.....(bad exit status: 2)
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.2.0-24-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/blcr/0.8.2/build/make.log for more information.
...

Here is `tail /var/lib/dkms/blcr/0.8.2/build/make.log:
checking whether CXX='g++' matches wordsize of CC... yes
checking for value of CR_SIGNUM... 64
checking size of void *... (cached) 8
checking compiler to build kernel modules... gcc (default)
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... (cached) /usr/bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... (cached) BSD nm
configure: error: --with-linux argument '3.2.0-24-generic' is neither a kernel version string nor a full path
make[1]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/blcr/0.8.2/build/config-stamp] Error 1
make: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/blcr/0.8.2/build] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-24-generic'

To be honest I'm not even sure whether this is a problem, and I have no idea what the package does :P I'm just worried that I keep getting this error message... :s

Any answers would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Richard

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

dpkg -l | grep header

Thanks

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Richard Klein (kleinric) said : 		#2

ii libdbus-1-dev 1.4.18-1ubuntu1 simple interprocess messaging system (development headers)
ii libice-dev 2:1.0.7-2build1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library (development headers)
ii libopenmpi-dev 1.4.3-2.1ubuntu3 high performance message passing library -- header files
ii libsm-dev 2:1.2.0-2build1 X11 Session Management library (development headers)
ii libx11-dev 2:1.4.99.1-0ubuntu2 X11 client-side library (development headers)
ii libxau-dev 1:1.0.6-4 X11 authorisation library (development headers)
ii libxcomposite-dev 1:0.4.3-2build1 X11 Composite extension library (development headers)
ii libxdamage-dev 1:1.1.3-2build1 X11 damaged region extension library (development headers)
ii libxdmcp-dev 1:1.1.0-4 X11 authorisation library (development headers)
ii libxext-dev 2:1.3.0-3build1 X11 miscellaneous extensions library (development headers)
ii libxfixes-dev 1:5.0-4ubuntu4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extension library (development headers)
ii libxi-dev 2:1.6.0-0ubuntu2 X11 Input extension library (development headers)
ii libxinerama-dev 2:1.1.1-3build1 X11 Xinerama extension library (development headers)
ii libxrandr-dev 2:1.3.2-2 X11 RandR extension library (development headers)
ii libxt-dev 1:1.1.1-2build1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library (development headers)
ii linux-headers-3.2.0-24 3.2.0-24.39 Header files related to Linux kernel version 3.2.0
ii linux-headers-3.2.0-24-generic 3.2.0-24.39 Linux kernel headers for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-generic 3.2.0.24.26 Generic Linux kernel headers
ii x11proto-core-dev 7.0.22-1 X11 core wire protocol and auxiliary headers

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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Graham Inggs (ginggs) said : 		#4

The blcr kernel module is not yet compatible with kernel 3.0+.
If you have upgraded to blcr version 0.8.2-15ubuntu2.1, you can now safely remove the blcr-dkms package and stop receiving this error message, see LP: #1005524.

$ sudo apt-get remove blcr-dkms