[SOLVED] sysdig reports dkms.conf file doesn't exist, but manual search clearly finds the config file

WFV · 06-21-2017, 01:16 AM

This error appeared when updating kernel today, but the config file does exist and in the location where it should. What does this mean?

Code:

# dkms status
sysdig, 0.16.0, 4.11.6-1-ARCH, x86_64: installedError! Could not locate dkms.conf file.
File:  does not exist.

Code:

# ~src/sysdig-0.16.0 % ls -l
total 488
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    141 May 15 01:22 dkms.conf

the file contains the correct information,

Code:

# nano dkms.conf
PACKAGE_NAME="sysdig"
PACKAGE_VERSION="0.16.0"
BUILT_MODULE_NAME[0]="sysdig-probe"
DEST_MODULE_LOCATION[0]="/kernel/extra"
AUTOINSTALL="yes"

but does fail when pacman tries to run hooks for the new kernel however, manually running mkinitcpio succeeds.

AwesomeMachine · 06-21-2017, 02:07 PM

Well, it might be looking somewhere else for dkms.conf.

WFV · 06-21-2017, 11:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AwesomeMachine

Well, it might be looking somewhere else for dkms.conf.

Thanks AwesomMachine! right, and i too was looking elsewhere, "dkms.conf does not exist" turned up a lot of googles, this old ubuntu bug solves it. Just some house cleaning

Code:

rm -rf /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost

as those VirtualBox modules exist elsewhere and do install correctly. Now dkms status is clean

Code:

% dkms status
sysdig, 0.16.0, 4.11.6-1-ARCH, x86_64: installed
sysdig, 0.16.0, 4.9.33-1-lts, x86_64: installed

the old vboxhost stuff was the culprit, sysdig is good now. As others mentioned in that bug, kind of an obscure message, but a little search with the right information more than makes up for the message.

syg00 · 06-21-2017, 11:06 PM

Thanks for raising this - time I looked at sysdig.