[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#701025: virtualbox-guest-additions-iso: Guest additions fail to build on Centos 6.3 (vboxvideo_drm)

[Laurent Bigonville]

Package: virtualbox-guest-additions-iso
Version: 4.1.18-1
Severity: important
Tags: fixed-upsteam upsteam

Hi,

Today I've tried to install the guest addition on a CentOS machine using the
installer from the .iso.

The compilation of the video driver is failing with the following errors:

/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:114: warning: braces around scalar initializer
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:114: warning: (near initialization for ‘driver.fops’)
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:115: error: field name not in record or union initializer
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:115: error: (near initialization for ‘driver.fops’)
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:115: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:116: error: field name not in record or union initializer
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:116: error: (near initialization for ‘driver.fops’)
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:116: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:116: warning: (near initialization for ‘driver.fops’)
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:117: error: field name not in record or union initializer
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:117: error: (near initialization for ‘driver.fops’)
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:117: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:117: warning: (near initialization for ‘driver.fops’)
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:121: error: field name not in record or union initializer
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:121: error: (near initialization for ‘driver.fops’)
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:121: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:121: warning: (near initialization for ‘driver.fops’)
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:125: error: field name not in record or union initializer
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:125: error: (near initialization for ‘driver.fops’)
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:125: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:125: warning: (near initialization for ‘driver.fops’)
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:126: error: field name not in record or union initializer
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:126: error: (near initialization for ‘driver.fops’)
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:126: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:126: warning: (near initialization for ‘driver.fops’)
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:127: error: field name not in record or union initializer
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:127: error: (near initialization for ‘driver.fops’)
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:127: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer
/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.c:127: warning: (near initialization for ‘driver.fops’)
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vbox.0/vboxvideo_drm.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vbox.0] Error 2
make: *** [vboxvideo] Error 2

I then tried with the iso shipped with the version 4.1.24 of virtualbox and
it was working as expected.

As documented on the upstream bug report[0], the patch is available in
the SVN (revision 42164[1]).

[0] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10756
[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/42164/vbox

Cheers

Laurent Bigonville

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

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virtualbox-guest-additions-iso depends on no packages.

Versions of packages virtualbox-guest-additions-iso recommends:
ii  virtualbox  4.1.18-dfsg-2.1

virtualbox-guest-additions-iso suggests no packages.

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