Linux upgrade did not include headers

cowlick · 2020-05-07 15:55:50

upgraded linux (5.6.10.arch1-1 -> 5.6.11.arch1-1)

Headers did not accompany kernel upgrade. Installed via pacman -S linux-headers after.

Edit; sorry, added dash between linux and headers.

Last edited by cowlick (2020-05-07 16:16:18)

Scimmia · 2020-05-07 15:57:23

since there's no package called 'headers', that command wouldn't have worked.

Post your pacman log.

Trilby · 2020-05-07 16:12:48

Your post is conspicuously lacking any question or problem (or commands or output). We could all play 20 questions to try to extract information from you to determine what the question is, if there is one at all.

I'll start: is it bigger than a bread basket?

loqs · 2020-05-07 20:25:28

cowlick your edited post still does not contain the actual commands you used along with the outputs those commands produced or include the contents of pacman.log.

kokoko3k · 2020-05-07 21:22:36

Trilby wrote:

Your post is conspicuously lacking any question or problem (or commands or output). We could all play 20 questions to try to extract information from you to determine what the question is, if there is one at all.
I'll start: is it bigger than a bread basket?

LIKE.

(sorry!)

cowlick · 2020-05-08 01:00:07

My recollection of arch updates indicates every update to a kernel included an accompanying headers file. The first line of my op describes the update. There was no headers file. The first time it ever happened to me. Thought you might want to know. So I installed it myself. Should I mark this solved?

loqs · 2020-05-08 01:26:06

The issue was you were expecting an update (which you have not defined but I take it to mean to `pacman -Syu`) would include linux-headers because the linux package was installed?
linux does not depend on linux-headers so installing linux did not install linux-headers. As linux-headers is not installed `pacman -Syu` did not update or install linux-headers.
You install linux-headers so future `pacman -Syu` invocations will update the package.
If you have included

pacman -Syu
....output here

It would have at least shown linux-headers was not being updated and prompt the question was linux-headers installed.
The contents of pacman.log would have shown linux-headers was not installed. Please consider in future providing the requested output.
Edit:
Please read https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

Last edited by loqs (2020-05-08 01:27:49)

cowlick · 2020-05-08 19:41:50

Here is an excerpt from my /var/log/pacman.log;

07T11:44:28-0400] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Unable to install module broadcom-wl/6.30.223.271 for kernel 5.6.11-arch1-1: Missing kernel headers.

This was the error that prompted me to install linux-headers. It seems to have worked, I don't know.

WorMzy · 2020-05-08 19:59:53

Rather than an excerpt, please post the whole thing.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … in_clients

Mod note: Not a kernel issue, moving to NC.

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