Bug 515276

After some further investigation, I found that the problem was caused by missing kernel headers - which had to do with the fact that a "yum upgrade" had somehow failed to install a new kernel-devel even though an old version was there. After installing the package in question, everything work as bit better - the build still fails, but I think this may be a problem with the module itself.

It seems to me that there is still a minor bug, though - surely the startup report failure, and not exit on script error when the headers are missing.

This message is due to the initscript trying to use the LSB-approved functions, when the redhat-lsb package is not installed.  Ugh.  Marking this as depends on splitting redhat-lsb up, so we don't have to install many megabytes of libraries just to get these initscript-using echo functions.

DKMS 2.1.0.0 removes the need for Requires: lsb.  This is built in rawhide, so please test it there if you can.  I'll think about building it for testing in F11 also.

dkms-2.1.0.0-1.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dkms-2.1.0.0-1.el5

dkms-2.1.0.0-1.el4 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 4.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dkms-2.1.0.0-1.el4

dkms-2.1.0.0-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dkms-2.1.0.0-1.fc11

dkms-2.1.0.0-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dkms'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-8929

dkms-2.1.0.0-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dkms'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/EL-5/FEDORA-EPEL-2009-0339

dkms-2.1.0.0-1.el4 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 4 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dkms'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/EL-4/FEDORA-EPEL-2009-0316

dkms-2.1.0.1-1.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dkms-2.1.0.1-1.el5

dkms-2.1.0.1-1.el4 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 4.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dkms-2.1.0.1-1.el4

dkms-2.1.0.1-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dkms-2.1.0.1-1.fc11

dkms-2.1.0.1-1.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dkms-2.1.0.1-1.fc10

dkms-2.1.0.1-1.el4 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 4 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dkms'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/EL-4/FEDORA-EPEL-2009-0431

dkms-2.1.0.1-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dkms'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/EL-5/FEDORA-EPEL-2009-0436

dkms-2.1.0.1-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dkms'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-9486

dkms-2.1.0.1-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dkms'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-9510

dkms-2.1.0.1-1.el4 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 4 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

dkms-2.1.0.1-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

dkms-2.1.0.1-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

dkms-2.1.0.1-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

problem persists:

# /etc/init.d/dkms_autoinstaller start
Running DKMS auto installation service for kernel 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5
/etc/init.d/dkms_autoinstaller: line 143: log_action_end_msg: command not found

versions:

# rpm -q dkms redhat-lsb
dkms-2.1.0.1-1.el5
redhat-lsb-3.1-12.3.EL
redhat-lsb-3.1-12.3.EL

# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.4 (Tikanga)

# uname -srmpovi
Linux 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Sep 21 04:37:42 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Note:

this only appears:
/etc/init.d/dkms_autoinstaller: line 143: log_action_end_msg: command not found
if there was an error.  if the module(s) build successfully, that message is not displayed.

on success I get:
# /etc/init.d/dkms_autoinstaller start
Running DKMS auto installation service for kernel 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5
Done

This issue is also present in F14. None of the redhat-lsb rpms are installed on a default install.

redhat-lsb
redhat-lsb-graphics
redhat-lsb-printing

The descriptions of each package don't really give much away. Has anything changed with respect to these?

Installing the above rpms also pulls in pax, gettext and gettext-libs for a total install of 6.7MB on disk (according to smart package manager). Doesn't seem too much for a desktop machine?

Some further information:

Installing the Redhat LSB packages does not solve the problem :(

It looks like the logging functions in /lib/lsb/init-functions calls some scripts in /etc/redhat-lsb which are missing. I have reported this here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=245494

in any case the dkms init script uses a function called 'log_action_end_msg' which does not seem to be supported in /lib/lsb/init-functions. It also references this as '$DEBIAN_STYLE_LOGGING'. Should this not be closer to LSB style logging?

Does any of this even matter for the future with systemd on the horizon?

Also I can't seem to re-open the ticket.

cheers

Sorry, please ignore the comments about the missing functions (they actually exist) and the '$DEBIAN_STYLE_LOGGING', I misread the script.

Although the dkms_installer script sources /lib/lsb/init-functions it does not seem to use those functions. Very confusing for those not quite paying attention like myself.

The original error reported in the bug is due to the 'log_action_end_msg 1' not being wrapped in an if statement.

Making it look like this:

		if [ ! -z "$DEBIAN_STYLE_LOGGING" ]; then                        
			log_action_end_msg 1
                fi

fixes the error message. 

Would that mean that on Fedora the script fails silently (no indication to the user that the modules are not built)?