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PL_kolek

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Registered: 2012-02-21

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[SOLVED]DKMS - could not locate dkms.conf file

Hello!
When I try to reinstall modules for new kernel, I get this:

sudo dkms autoinstall 
Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file.
File:  does not exist.

For example I cannot switch my GPU because bbswitch didn't get autoinstalled for the new kernel. I have to manually do:

sudo dkms build bbswitch/0.5

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel.  Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area....
make KERNELRELEASE=3.6.4-1-ARCH KVERSION=3.6.4-1-ARCH.....
cleaning build area....

DKMS: build completed.

And then:

sudo dkms install bbswitch/0.5

bbswitch:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /usr/lib/modules/3.6.4-1-ARCH/kernel/drivers/acpi/

depmod.......

DKMS: install completed.

I guess the same follows for my nvidia-drivers? I think DKMS should do this on its own, but I'm not sure if missing dkms.conf is related.

Last edited by PL_kolek (2012-11-07 21:27:38)

PL_kolek

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Re: [SOLVED]DKMS - could not locate dkms.conf file

BUMP
New kernel - situation recurred. Has anyone any idea what might be going on?

DKMS hasn't installed nvidia either...

Last edited by PL_kolek (2012-11-04 20:11:20)

Alucryd

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Re: [SOLVED]DKMS - could not locate dkms.conf file

Same here on one of my machines. The other 2 are fine though, still haven't figured out what's going wrong. Fresh installing seems to fix the problem though.

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Alucryd

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Re: [SOLVED]DKMS - could not locate dkms.conf file

Okay found out what was wrong, look here for the answer: http://8thstring.blogspot.fr/2012/01/er … -file.html

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PL_kolek

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Re: [SOLVED]DKMS - could not locate dkms.conf file

Thanks for the answer. I found this post before, but ignored it, because I didn't have virtualbox installed (had to install it yesterday though). I followed the advice there and removed all directories corresponding to old version of my modules. No betterment:

sudo dkms autoinstall 
[sudo] password for mk: 
Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file.
File:  does not exist.

Lekensteyn

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Registered: 2012-06-19

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Re: [SOLVED]DKMS - could not locate dkms.conf file

Use the following to find out your lone DKMS packages

for i in /var/lib/dkms/*/[^k]*/source; do [ -e "$i" ] || echo "$i";done

It will probably print out /var/lib/dkms/bbswitch/0.4.2/source. In that case, remove /var/lib/dkms/bbswitch/0.4.2.

There was an error in older .install scripts (due to a libalpm bug) that prevented older versions to be uninstalled first.

PL_kolek

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Re: [SOLVED]DKMS - could not locate dkms.conf file

Sorry for not being able to check your solution, because I fixed it in my way. Dumb way. I uninstalled dmks and dkms-bbswitch, removed /var/lib/dkms and installed it again. No strange errors now.

But I removed /var/lib/dkms/bbswitch/0.4.2 before, and it didn't help. But probably I did something wrong. Thanks

mongrelion

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Re: [SOLVED]DKMS - could not locate dkms.conf file

Use the following to find out your lone DKMS packages

for i in /var/lib/dkms/*/[^k]*/source; do [ -e "$i" ] || echo "$i";done

It will probably print out /var/lib/dkms/bbswitch/0.4.2/source. In that case, remove /var/lib/dkms/bbswitch/0.4.2.

There was an error in older .install scripts (due to a libalpm bug) that prevented older versions to be uninstalled first.

Thanks. I ran into a similar issue with the nvidia module and your trick totally worked.