[Bug 1790860] Re: ethernet driver update issue

[Jun Baba]

I also have the same error on 18.04 and kernel 4.15.0-42-generic...

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Title:
  ethernet driver update issue

Status in man-db package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I am using xbuntu 18.04 with kernel 4.16.8-rt2
  when I am trying to update the driver and following issue appeared.

  coe at FLSCCM:~/Desktop/e1000e/e1000e-3.4.2.1/src$ sudo make install
  [sudo]
  password for coe:

  make -C /lib/modules/4.16.8-rt2/build CC=gcc
  SUBDIRS=/home/coe/Desktop/e1000e/e1000e-3.4.2.1/src modules

  make[1]: Entering directory '/opt/kernel/linux-4.16.8'

  Building modules, stage 2.
    M
  ODPOST 1 modules
  make[1]: Leaving directory '/opt/kernel/linux-4.16.8'

  # remove all old versions of the driver

  find /lib/modules/4.16.8-rt2 -name e1000e.ko -exec rm -f {} \; || true

  find /lib/modules/4.16.8-rt2 -name e1000e.ko.gz -exec rm -f {} \; ||
  true

  install -D -m 644 e1000e.ko
  /lib/modules/4.16.8-rt2/updates/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000e.ko

  /sbin/depmod -a 4.16.8-rt2 || true

  install -D -m 644 e1000e.7.gz /usr/share/man/man7/e1000e.7.gz

  man -c -P'cat > /dev/null' e1000e || true

  man: command exited with status 1: (cd /usr/share/man && /usr/lib/man-
  db/zsoelim) | (cd /usr/share/man && /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f
  UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE) | (cd /usr/share/man && preconv -e
  UTF-8) | (cd /usr/share/man && tbl) | (cd /usr/share/man && nroff
  -mandoc -rLL=264n -rLT=264n -Tutf8) | gzip -c7

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