[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#520706: Bug#520706: Bug#520706: nvidia-kernel-source: Also fails with module-assistant

[Russ Allbery]

Julian Gilbey <jdg at polya.uklinux.net> writes:

> I tried building the latest version of the modules (195.36.15, based on
> the 190.53-2 Debian package, with the source updated), but ran into this
> same problem.

By "this same problem" do you mean the specific error message in this bug
report, namely:

> | install -m 0644 /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nvidia.ko /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/debian/nvidia-kernel-2.6.29-2-amd64/lib/modules/2.6.29-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko ; \
> | 
> | install: cannot stat `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nvidia.ko': No such file or directory

> I can't figure out the instructions and suggestions in this bug report,
> so I just ran a plain m-a on it, and it died (in exactly the same way as
> when I built it directly using debian/rules modules).  Attached is the
> module-assistant log file.

The instructions in the bug report are to run:

    m-a clean nvidia

before attempting a build.  You need to always do this in module-assistant
whenever there's a new version of the source package.  This is more a
module-assistant problem than a problem with any specific source package.
It affects all kernel module source packages occasionally.

Your log file wasn't attached, so I can't double-check what error that
you're getting.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>