Linux kernel headers - missing package version

[mitu]

Hello,

 

I have installed the minimal Trixie based image for Orange Pi5 (the image named Armbian_26.2.1_Orangepi5_trixie_current_6.18.8_minimal) and then attempted to build an out-of-tree kernel module. Having installed dkms and build-essentials, plus the kernel headers through armbian-config, I found the headers package hasn't been fully set-up, the build symlink in /lib/modules/<KVER> is missing and dkms complains that the kernel headers for the kernel are not installed.

 

 The kernel headers are installed though, but it looks like they're from a previous release (25.11.2 instead of 26.2.1).

 

# dpkg -l | grep rockchip
ii  linux-dtb-current-rockchip64      26.2.1                         arm64        Armbian Linux current DTBs in /boot/dtb-6.18.8-current-rockchip64
ii  linux-headers-current-rockchip64  25.11.2                        arm64        Armbian Linux current headers 6.12.58-current-rockchip64
ii  linux-image-current-rockchip64    26.2.1                         arm64        Armbian Linux current kernel image 6.18.8-current-rockchip64

 

 

 

 It the headers package still pending packaging ? Shouldn't armbian-config provide an error in this case and not install the old kernel headers ?

 

EDIT: armbianmonitor ouput - https://paste.armbian.com/oliyalebeq

Edited 1 hour ago by mitu

[Werner]

Yes, they seem to be missing in repo. 

As a quick fix I'd suggest to use the build framework to create yourself a set of deb files containing all necessary packages

./compile.sh BOARD=orangepi5 BRANCH=current kernel

copy the packages from output/debs to your board and use dpkg to install them.

[mitu]

If I'm building the .deb file manually, is there a way to build with kernel 6.19 for the OrangePi5 ? Can I use the edge branch (instead of current) for this ?

 

While I don't mind waiting for the package to build, if I can build the bsp/kernel/headers for 6.19 I can give it a try. 

EDITED for formatting.

Edited 1 hour ago by mitu

[Werner]

No. edge will give you 7.0-rc3 since it was bumped recently.

You can try to revert this commit to get 6.19. No guarantee it works, nor any support will be given.

https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/9445

[mitu]

Eh, I can try the 7.0 rc package and see how they behave, as long as it's 6.19 or later is fine. Thanks for the pointers.

[mitu]

OK, so that went reasonably fast and produced the 4 kernel debs. The linux-libc-dev-edge-rockchip64 didn't install due to conflict with the (current/stable) linux-libc-dev package - I think this is expected - but the rest of the kernel packages have been succesfully installed and the dkms error seems resolved.