linux-headers (SOLVED)

[birkopf]

Dear All,

Yesterday I had notification from Adept Updater about new headers. I applied them, and after restart - just problems.
I was installing from SVN and when I tried to

make

that's what came up:

rich@a:~/usb-rndis-lite$ make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/rich/usb-rndis-lite modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [default] Error 2

I was sure problem is with SVN... so tried on anther program, and this came up:

rich@a:~/usb-rndis-lite$ make
cd: 1: can't cd to /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/build
Makefile.inc:66: *** /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/build is missing, please set KERNELPATH. Stop.

Aptitude and apt-get was insisting on running 'autoremove' and removing previous headers, so I gave it a go... probably mistake

I have build-essential to to newest version, so problem needs to be somewhere else. Maybe new headers are not linked in system? I mean old one are deleted, and system "doesn't know where new one's are"

How+where to check it ?

Can you advise what to do now ?

[gnowak]

Re: linux-headers

Is your system bootable?

If not, try to reinstall GRUB or run a

sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

What is exactly your problem?

[birkopf]

Re: linux-headers

What is exactly your problem?

System is bootable, and most programs works OK.

Problem is - I can't compile now programs because as soon as I hit MAKE this error comes up. I assume there is more complication, that I haven't found yet. I don't know how to restore old headers or check in system if new ones are correctly fit in.

[toad]

Re: linux-headers

Why don't you install the headers from the repository - have you cooked your own kernel?

[birkopf]

Re: linux-headers

Why don't you install the headers from the repository - have you cooked your own kernel?

I didn't make kernel.

Gentlemans! I am total confused newbie - please spare me ;-)

I just clicked OK when Adept wanted to upgrade headers... innocent thing.
Now I don't know how to fix it. Can you guide ?

[toad]

Re: linux-headers

No problem I am at least as confused as you are, but what the heck!

You need to find out your current kernel by typing:

uname -r

I've also got 8.04, so here is my output - yours may differ depending on your CPU:

ingo@dicker:~/.scripts/python$ uname -r
2.6.24-21-generic

Now you have that info you can install the correct headers.

If you want to have a look as to which headers are available in the repositories simply type "apt-cache search header|grep kernel". Of the output select those "linux-headers-..." which match your kernel exactly. In my case it would be linux-headers-2.6.24-21-generic

To install I'd type

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.24-21-generic

And there you are.

I hope that helps - if you have any further questions just shout

[birkopf]

Re: linux-headers

I've also got 8.04, so here is my output - yours may differ depending on your CPU:

ingo@dicker:~/.scripts/python$ uname -r
2.6.24-21-generic

That Rock's 8)

At the moment my problem is gone. It seems that Adept "updated" headers, but not all of them or during update there was some problem, but now - like you told me - I have installed same headers, and make command works plus some of the rest problems are gone. Seems that I have overwritten old ones and filled up gaps.

Thank you very much !

[toad]

Re: linux-headers

You're welcome, keep on rocking