Bug 31972

Summary: upgrade leaves 2 versions of broadcom-wl-common (and associated dkms) resulting in no wifi.
Product: Mageia Reporter: Ben McMonagle <westel>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Kernel and Drivers maintainers <kernel>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: fri
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: broadcom-wl-6.30.223.271-66.mga9.nonfree.src.rpm CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments: journal from upgrade

Description Ben McMonagle 2023-05-29 08:52:43 CEST 
Description of problem:
performing a mgaapplet --testing upgrade  of  a broadcom wifi'd system, resulted in  a system that was unable to connect to wifi network.
upgrade was performed using a wired LAN connection.
system uses a Broadcom BCM4311, that requires the nonfree drivers to function.

upgrade halted when installing the broadcom-wl-common package.
upgrade was completed from cli (urpmi --auto-update)  

after a reboot to the new kernel, attempting to connect to wifi network failed

drakroam reported that dkms-broadcom-wl cannot be installed.

a MCC check of required packages resulted in the following packages listed as installed:

kernel-desktop-6.3.4-3.mga9.x86_64
kernel-desktop-devel-6.3.4-3.mga9.x86_64
broadcom-wl-common-6.30.223.271-66.mga8.nonfree.x86_64  
dkms-broadcom-wl-6.30.223.271-66.mga8.nonfree.x86_64 
broadcom-wl-common-6.30.223.271-66.mga9.nonfree.x86_64  
dkms-broadcom-wl-6.30.223.271-66.mga9.nonfree.x86_64 

removal of the .mga8 packages resolves the issue.
  


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.upgrade a broadcom based wifi system via mgaapplet --testing
2.check wifi after reboot to new kernel.
3.
Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2023-05-29 20:57:46 CEST 
Thank you for the report.
The essential seems to be (good detective work):
> broadcom-wl-common-6.30.223.271-66.mga8.nonfree.x86_64  
> dkms-broadcom-wl-6.30.223.271-66.mga8.nonfree.x86_64 
> broadcom-wl-common-6.30.223.271-66.mga9.nonfree.x86_64  
> dkms-broadcom-wl-6.30.223.271-66.mga9.nonfree.x86_64 

> removal of the .mga8 packages resolves the issue.
This SRPM is dealt with by Thomas, so assigning this to kernel/Drivers.

Assignee: bugsquad => kernel
Source RPM: (none) => broadcom-wl-6.30.223.271-66.mga9.nonfree.src.rpm

Comment 2 Ben McMonagle 2023-05-29 21:04:22 CEST 
conveniently just inspecting last nights re-run and upgrade has halted again at install of *dkms-broadcom-wl (2444/2485)*

have just taken a journalctl -b  text file.

will attach the relevant part tonight.
Comment 3 Ben McMonagle 2023-05-30 08:14:04 CEST 
Created attachment 13858 [details]
journal from upgrade
Comment 4 Morgan Leijström 2023-06-02 16:21:40 CEST 
May the non-removal of mga8 packages be caused by too late conversion of rpm db? 
Bug 29364 - rpmdb not converted on update to sqlite

CC: (none) => fri