[Bug 1068488] Re: linux-headers-generic is not being installed, causes issues when installing proprietary drivers

[Vladimir Brednikov]

I have installed fresh 12.10 with "Enable proprietary drivers" checkbox
enabled to Eee PC 1215N (Broadcom BCM4313 WLAN chip). Wireless  was
working perfectly with broadcom driver (bcmwl-kernel-source). But after
update to 3.5.0-18 DKMS failed to rebuild this module without
Module.symvers and other files from linux-headers-generic package. I
have no Ethernet LAN, so this problem was hard to investigate and fix
without reboot to livecd or previous kernel.

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Title:
  linux-headers-generic is not being installed, causes issues when
  installing proprietary drivers

Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  linux-headers-generic is no longer being default installed
  When users attempt to install either nvidia-* or fglrx linux-headers-3.5.0-17-generic is not being installed & the kernel module fails to build
  linux-headers is default installed & likely satisfies the dep of the above packages which is linux-headers-generic | linux-headers

  related bug
  Bug  1068456 (now duplicate of bug #1068341)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: ubiquity (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Oct 19 03:50:13 2012
  InstallCmdLine: initrd=/ubninit file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash -- BOOT_IMAGE=/ubnkern
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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