"Bad return stat" error when trying to install easy-slow-down-manager / samsung-tools

[bareem]

Ok so i'm trying to set up a smooth backtrack 5 R1 with KDE on a Samsung N150 netbook (HardDisk installation).
I'm actually running BTR1 64-bit and anything is working fine OOB apart of the backlight regulation, which is impossible to set with the "Fn + whatever" combination, nor i've been able to set it using setpci as i am used to do on my debian partition.

In order to install the samsung-tools package, which I need to get the backlight controlling, i need to install the easy-slow-down-manager as well due to its dependencies.

When trying to install the slow-down-manager using apt-get, i get this error message:




Setting up easy-slow-down-manager (0.13.2~ppa1~loms~lucid) ...
Loading new easy_slow_down_manager-0.13.2 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 2.6.39.4
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 2.6.39.4

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.39.4 (x86_64)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/easy_slow_down_manager/0.13.2/build/ for more information.
dpkg: error processing easy-slow-down-manager (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Setting up linux-headers-2.6.39.4 (2.6.39.4-10.00.Custom) ...
Examining /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms 2.6.39.4 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39.4

Setting up linux-headers (1.1-bt3) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
easy-slow-down-manager
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
andrea@bt:/usr/src/linux$


I found on similar topics this combination I tried to run:

prepare-kernel-sources && cd /usr/src/linux && cp -rf include/generated/* include/linux

but with no luck


Here is the logfile:



andrea@bt:/usr/src/linux$ cd /var/lib/dkms/easy_slow_down_manager/0.13.2/build/
andrea@bt:/var/lib/dkms/easy_slow_down_manager/0.13.2/build$ ls
dkms.conf easy_slow_down_manager.c Makefile make.log
andrea@bt:/var/lib/dkms/easy_slow_down_manager/0.13.2/build$ cat make.log
DKMS make.log for easy_slow_down_manager-0.13.2 for kernel 2.6.39.4 (x86_64)
Thu Nov 10 01:07:05 CET 2011
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.39.4/build M=/var/lib/dkms/easy_slow_down_manager/0.13.2/build modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.39.4'

WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.39.4/Module.symvers
is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/easy_slow_down_manager/0.13.2/build/easy_slow_down_manager.o
/var/lib/dkms/easy_slow_down_manager/0.13.2/build/easy_slow_down_manager.c: In function ‘sabi_exec_command’:
/var/lib/dkms/easy_slow_down_manager/0.13.2/build/easy_slow_down_manager.c:117: error: implicit declaration of function ‘msleep’
make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/easy_slow_down_manager/0.13.2/build/easy_slow_down_manager.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/easy_slow_down_manager/0.13.2/build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.39.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2


and my lspci just in case someone knows about alternative drivers

andrea@bt:/var/lib/dkms/easy_slow_down_manager/0.13.2/build$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
05:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
andrea@bt:/var/lib/dkms/easy_slow_down_manager/0.13.2/build$



Even a workaroud would be enough.

[Snayler]

I found this on the "easy-slow-down-manager" google code page.

To build the module you need linux kernel source. Unpack module archive and issue:
make -C /path/to/linux/source M=`pwd` modules
This use to work on most linux distros:
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd` modules

[bareem]

thank you for the help!

I have two choices: wheter installing the deb package, and in that case the package installs but all of the other samsung packages (samsung-backlight and samsung-tools) keep giving me the same problems (and which i only found via apt by adding voria repositories from "linux for my samsung" project, so i'm stucked with apt-get installations) or attempting the installation through tar.gz, and getting this other error:

WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.39.4/Module.symvers
is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

I found this topic where a similar problem is mentioned, but with no solution yet:

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...ireless-2.html