[intrepid] custom kernel then nvidia errors

Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) mihamina at lab.vectoris.fr
Mon Apr 27 07:41:31 UTC 2009


Hi,
I installed on an intrepid:
mihamina at lab:~$ dpkg -l | awk '/^ii  nvidia/ {print $2}'
nvidia-173-modaliases
nvidia-177-kernel-source
nvidia-177-modaliases
nvidia-71-modaliases
nvidia-96-modaliases
nvidia-common
nvidia-glx-177
nvidia-kernel-common
nvidia-settings

Because of SiS NIC problem
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/247889)
I made a custom kernel this way:
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/287172)
[...]
     # apt-get source linux-source
     # apt-get build-dep linux-source
     # cd /usr/src/
     # tar xjf linux-source-2.6.27.tar.bz2
     # cd linux-source-2.6.27
     # cp /boot/config-2.6.27-7-generic .config
     # make-kpkg clean;
     # export CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=8
     # fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-infogerance 
kernel-image kernel-headers

Then, know I have a dpkg problem when I install anything:

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 56 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.27-rktmb (2.6.27-rktmb-10.00.Custom) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
initrd.img
(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-rktmb)
points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-rktmb
  (/boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-rktmb)
--doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.27-rktmb.postinst 
line 583.
vmlinuz
(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-rktmb)
points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-rktmb
  (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-rktmb) -- doing nothing at 
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.27-rktmb.postinst line 583.
Running postinst hook script update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-rktmb
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common exited with return code 20
Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at 
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.27-rktmb.postinst line 1181.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.27-rktmb (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
  linux-image-2.6.27-rktmb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


What should be done to wipe this out?

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