Akmods Script Update - Boot Error

[kjrdel]

Hi

I am (still) running 64-bit Fedora 14 on an HP pavilion laptop. I recently performed a normal software update which included an update to the akmods script for building akmod packages during system boot.

Version is: akmods-0.3.7-1.fc14.noarch (looks like this is the same for F15 as well).
Previous version was: akmods-0.3.6-3.fc12.noarch

I use akmods to rebuild my broadcom wireless driver for each new kernel. At boot time, I get the following error in my boot.log:

cat /var/log/boot.log | grep 'Checking kmods'
Checking kmods exist for 2.6.35.14-103.fc14.x86_64Error: Could not determine if akmod is newer then the installed kmod [FAILED]

My wireless driver still appears to work.

I am using kernel 2.6.35.14-103.fc14.x86_64 with kmod packages:
kmod-wl-2.6.35.14-103.fc14.x86_64-5.100.82.38-1.fc14.10.x86_64 and
kmod-wl-5.100.82.38-1.fc14.10.x86_64

Reverting back to version 0.3.6-3.fc12 gets rid of the error.

Is anyone else getting this boot error? Is it anything serious?

Thanks.

[johnfparis]

I am getting the same error. It appears to be more irritating than anything else. The Broadcom driver works fine.

I did a little more research and I believe I discovered a mistake in the code for akmods-0.3.7-1

I have written to the author. Basically it is reporting the wrong error. There is an error with the Broadcom kmods -- specifically, the kmod version is NEWER than the akmods version in RPMFusion, which theoretically should never happen.

Specifically:
akmodver=0:5.100.82.38-1
kmodver=0:5.100.82.38-1.10

So the akmod version needs to match the kmod version at 5.100.82.38-1.10. It is currently at 5.100.82.38-1.

If I can find the maintainer I'll write to him/her as well.

[bepaald]

Well I think I am running into the same problems as you guys. As far as I can tell this has nothing to do with broadcom drivers or any specific kmods (I am seeing this with kmod-nvidia). I checked the akmods script pretty thoroughly and have reported a bug. So if you're interested, you can follow the report here: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2063

bepaald

[nick623]

I'm having the same error running fedora 14 x_64. Read the bugzilla report. So the bug in the script is fixed. Should I enable testing repos to update or will it be updated later in the regular repo? Thanks.

[bepaald]

Sorry for the late reply. Yes, while I am sure the update will appear in the regular repo eventually, I have been using the testing version without problems for a week now. And there has even been a kernel update since then. So I'd say just run:

su -c "yum --enablerepo=rpmfusion-free-updates-testing update akmods"

And your problems should be history.

bepaald

[nick623]

Thanks for the reply. I'll give it a shot.

---------- Post added at 07:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:27 PM ----------

Well no fail message on boot upload. Looks a lot cleaner.