Sorry for the delay. I had access to this computer until today. I did what you said. Now I have a new dkms_autoinstaller file but something went wrong about something called "fakeroot" on the last command. The word "failed" was marked with red letters on the terminal. Here's the output:
~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge dkms Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: dkms* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 381kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 139553 files and directories currently installed.) Removing dkms ... Purging configuration files for dkms ... dpkg - warning: while removing dkms, directory `/etc/dkms' not empty so not removed. dpkg - warning: while removing dkms, directory `/var/lib/dkms' not empty so not removed. Processing triggers for man-db ... ~$ sudo apt-get install dkms Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: fakeroot The following NEW packages will be installed: dkms fakeroot 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 116kB/172kB of archives. After this operation, 836kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main fakeroot 1.9.5ubuntu1 [116kB] Fetched 116kB in 1s (73.8kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package dkms. (Reading database ... 139517 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking dkms (from .../dkms_2.0.20.4-0ubuntu2.1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package fakeroot. Unpacking fakeroot (from .../fakeroot_1.9.5ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up dkms (2.0.20.4-0ubuntu2.1) ... Running DKMS auto installation service for kernel 2.6.27-11-generic: snapapi26 (0.7.0)...failed. Setting up fakeroot (1.9.5ubuntu1) ... -- dkms always crash after any update of any package causing an error, however anything workfs fine https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341080 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
