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[Philipp Blanke <philipp.blanke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you again Raphael. I looked into this and you are completely right.

I will put the janitor to work more often in the future :)

Best regards,
Philipp

2010/1/13 Raphael Gradenwitz <raphael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Hi Philipp,
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 13.01.2010, 08:50 +0100 schrieb Philipp Blanke:
> > Thank you very much. After removing the modules by hand, everything
> > worked.
>
> Good!
>
>
> > I'm still interested why the janitor script gave me the wrong version
> > number (0.6 instead of the installed 0.9np4), since this is the
> > version of the applet I wonder if the script does something wrong
> > there?
>
> No. That has nothing to do with the applet.
>
> 0.6 is the version of the vanilla kernel module like you can see with
> this command (one line):
>
> # modinfo /lib/modules/`uname
> -r`/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.ko
>
>
> I know exactly what happened in your case:
>
> In an earlier run of the Janitor script - which is permanent under heavy
> development - the kernel module installation process was not yet
> completed; it was only added but not yet built.
> This could happen in the past after Ubuntu changed the location of the
> dkms_autoinstaller from /etc/init.d to /usr/lib/dkms/.
> Meanwhile that is fixed:
>
> if [ -f /usr/lib/dkms/dkms_autoinstaller ]; then
> dkms_autoinstaller='/usr/lib/dkms/dkms_autoinstaller'
> elif [ -f /etc/init.d/dkms_autoinstaller ]; then
> dkms_autoinstaller='/etc/init.d/dkms_autoinstaller'
> fi
>
>
> Only very few people downloaded the bugy version, you seem to be one of
> them, excuse me for that.
>
> But now everything is fixed.
>
> My advice:
> Run the Janitor script more often in future.
>
> e.g. it runs other tasks while in speed mode as it runs while in stamina
> mode etc..
>
> And:
>
> it will fix bugs or such things like just now happened to you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Raphael Gradenwitz
>
>
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Philipp Blanke