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[Raphael Gradenwitz <raphael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Philipp,

Am Dienstag, den 12.01.2010, 20:17 +0100 schrieb Philipp Blanke:
> I just came to upgrade via the janitor script and became stuck. When
> checking for the version of Norbert's sony-laptop module, janitor
> script reports
>      - installed version: "0.6"
>      - available version: "0.9np5"
> 
> When choosing to upgrade, there comes the error message:
> 
> Error! DKMS tree already contains: sony-laptop-zseries-0.9np5
> You cannot add the same module/version combo more than once.
> 
> Error! There are no instances of module: sony-laptop
> 0.9np4 located in the DKMS tree.
> 
> [...]
> 
> And the script gets stuck in a (seemingly) endless loop (I aborted
> after a minute).
> I attach the output of 
> 
> $ sony-VGN-Zseries-janitor --debug


There went something wrong with your dkms tree.

We now have will get rid of that by hand.
For that open a shell and get root:

look what says

 # dkms status

and remove all rests of sony-laptop. Use

 # dkms remove -m sony-laptop -v 0.9np4 --all --force

and

 # dkms remove -m sony-laptop -v 0.9np5 --all --force


I know that you are a great Linux understander:

 # man dkms

try the verbose options to see what it speeks..

I have had such error messages only after changing things by hand but
could allways solve them.

Please send me your results.

After all instances are removed from dkms tree, run the janitor again.
He than will install everything from scratch.

Regards,

Raphael Gradenwitz