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Bug#686436: marked as done (linux-libc-dev: squeeze upgrade issue: linux-libc-dev introduces multiarch headers before compiler upgrade)

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and subject line Re: Bug#686436: openafs-modules-dkms: Does not build with squeeze kernel: error: asm/errno.h: No such file or directory
has caused the Debian Bug report #686436,
regarding linux-libc-dev: squeeze upgrade issue: linux-libc-dev introduces multiarch headers before compiler upgrade
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Package: openafs-modules-dkms
Version: 1.6.1-2
Severity: important

During an upgrade from squeeze to wheezy, I saw this:

                                      Setting up openafs-modules-dkms (1.6.1-2) ...
Removing old openafs-1.6.1 DKMS files...

------------------------------
Deleting module version: 1.6.1
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
Loading new openafs-1.6.1 DKMS files...
Building only for 2.6.32-5-686
Building initial module for 2.6.32-5-686
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.32-5-686 (i686)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/openafs/1.6.1/build/make.log for more information.
dpkg: error processing openafs-modules-dkms (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10
configured to not write apport reports
                                      Errors were encountered while processing:
 stow
 openafs-modules-dkms

$ tail /var/lib/dkms/openafs/1.6.1/build/make.log
rm -f AFS_component_version_number.c.NEW
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/lib/dkms/openafs/1.6.1/build/src/config'
gcc  -O2 -I/var/lib/dkms/openafs/1.6.1/build/include -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE  -I. -c ./config.c
In file included from /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25,
                 from /usr/include/errno.h:36,
                 from ./config.c:16:
/usr/include/linux/errno.h:4:23: error: asm/errno.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [config.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/lib/dkms/openafs/1.6.1/build/src/config'
make: *** [all] Error 2

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages openafs-modules-dkms depends on:
ii  dkms                   2.2.0.3-1.1       Dynamic Kernel Module Support Fram
ii  libc6-dev              2.11.3-3          Embedded GNU C Library: Developmen
ii  perl                   5.10.1-17squeeze3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages openafs-modules-dkms recommends:
ii  openafs-client           1.4.12.1+dfsg-4 AFS distributed filesystem client 

openafs-modules-dkms suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> writes:
> On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 14:24:47 -0700 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
>> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:
>> > On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 12:21:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>>> [...]
>>>> linux-libc-dev maintainers, when upgrading to squeeze, there is
>>>> currently nothing preventing linux-libc-dev from being upgraded to a
>>>> version that uses multiarch paths in advance of upgrading any compiler
>>>> to understand those paths, which results in a broken C compilation
>>>> environment.  In this case, this affected dkms, since dkms runs a
>>>> compiler from postinst scripts.
>> 
>>> linux-libc-dev is of course not used to build kernel modules.  But
>>> perhaps openafs also needlessly rebuilds userland code every time the
>>> kernel is upgraded.

>> The OpenAFS build system is rather complicated since it supports a ton of
>> different kernels, not just Linux.  Part of it involves building a small C
>> program which, in turn, is used to generate part of the build system.
>> ...
>> Anyway, I think the DKMS involvement is somewhat accidental and one can
>> arrive at other problems than just DKMS postinst scripts by doing a
>> partial upgrade.  The OpenAFS package just has a peculiarity that caused
>> us to stumble across this.

> Hi all,

> There hasn't been a response to this bug in 10 years. It's about Debian 
> Squeeze, gcc-4.7, kernel 2.6.32-5-686; all rather ancient stuff.

> What should be done with this bug?

This can be closed (done with this message).  It was about a very specific
upgrade ordering problem when multiarch was introduced into Debian.  That
water is long under the bridge.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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