Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.0.0-32-generic (x86_64)

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mohd@mohd-ThinkPad-X230:~/projects/i915-nolvds$ sudo ./dkms-install.sh 
About to run dkms install steps...

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/i915-nolvds/1/source ->
                 /usr/src/i915-nolvds-1

DKMS: add completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel.  Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area...(bad exit status: 2)
'make' -j4 KVER=5.0.0-32-generic KSRC=/lib/modules/5.0.0-32-generic/build......(bad exit status: 2)
ERROR (dkms apport): binary package for i915-nolvds: 1 not found
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.0.0-32-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/i915-nolvds/1/build/make.log for more information.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel.  Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area...(bad exit status: 2)
'make' -j4 KVER=5.0.0-32-generic KSRC=/lib/modules/5.0.0-32-generic/build......(bad exit status: 2)
ERROR (dkms apport): binary package for i915-nolvds: 1 not found
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.0.0-32-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/i915-nolvds/1/build/make.log for more information.
Finished running dkms install steps.

mohd@mohd-ThinkPad-X230:~/projects/i915-nolvds$ cat /var/lib/dkms/i915-nolvds/1/build/make.log
DKMS make.log for i915-nolvds-1 for kernel 5.0.0-32-generic (x86_64)
Tue 05 Nov 2019 04:52:01 AM PKT
Downloading Linux kernel source for v5.0.0
Cloning into '/var/lib/dkms/i915-nolvds/1/build/linux-5.0.0'...
warning: Could not find remote branch v5.0.0 to clone.
fatal: Remote branch v5.0.0 not found in upstream origin
make: *** [Makefile:40: download] Error 128

Looks like the script can't find the remote branch corresponding to the kernel?

[dorianfm]

and easy kludge to make this build is to change the Make file so that
CKERNELVERSION = $(shell echo $(KVER) | cut -d- -f1
line to
CKERNELVERSION = 5.0

The problem being that the first line tries to pull version 5.0.0 but a tag only exists on github for 5.0

[dorianfm]

BTW I've create a fork with 5.0 and 5.3 kernel support in it, in case you upgrade to ubuntu 19.10 ... dorianfm/i915-nolvds.

Happy to issue a PR, but it's a bit messy and there are a number of changes which might break things (model number conflicts) if merged into this and I don't really have time to try and resolve and test all of those.