[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#704130: virtualbox-guest-dkms: Module build fails on kernel 3.2 - please apply upstream patch

[Andrew Gallagher]

Package: virtualbox-guest-dkms
Version: 4.0.10-dfsg-1~bpo60+1
Severity: important


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From: Andrew Gallagher <andrewg at andrewg.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Subject: virtualbox-guest-dkms: module build fails on kernel 3.2 - please implement
 upstream patch
Message-ID: <20130328110730.6268.72127.reportbug at itchy>
X-Mailer: reportbug 4.12.6
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:07:30 +0000

Package: virtualbox-guest-dkms
Version: 4.0.10-dfsg-1~bpo60+1
Severity: important


There is an error building utils.o under kernel 3.2 - this has been fixed upstream
for some time and a patch is available:

https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/39224/vbox


Transcript:

agallagher at itchy:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall virtualbox-guest-dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libbase-java-openoffice.org libxerces2-java fonts-opensymbol mesa-common-dev libxerces2-java-gcj
  libserializer-java-openoffice.org libjaxp1.3-java-gcj
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/547 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 142544 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace virtualbox-guest-dkms 4.0.10-dfsg-1~bpo60+1 (using .../virtualbox-guest-dkms_4.0.10-dfsg-1~bpo60+1_all.deb) ...

------------------------------
Deleting module version: 4.0.10
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
Unpacking replacement virtualbox-guest-dkms ...
Setting up virtualbox-guest-dkms (4.0.10-dfsg-1~bpo60+1) ...
Loading new virtualbox-guest-4.0.10 DKMS files...
Building only for 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-rt-amd64
Building initial module for 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-rt-amd64

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-rt-amd64 (x86_64)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.0.10/build/ for more information.
agallagher at itchy:~$ tail -20 /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.0.10/build/make.log
  LD [M]  /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.0.10/build/vboxguest/vboxguest.o
  LD      /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.0.10/build/vboxsf/built-in.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.0.10/build/vboxsf/vfsmod.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.0.10/build/vboxsf/dirops.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.0.10/build/vboxsf/lnkops.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.0.10/build/vboxsf/regops.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.0.10/build/vboxsf/utils.o
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.0.10/build/vboxsf/utils.c: In function ‘sf_init_inode’:
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.0.10/build/vboxsf/utils.c:112: error: assignment of read-only member ‘i_nlink’
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.0.10/build/vboxsf/utils.c:121: error: assignment of read-only member ‘i_nlink’
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.0.10/build/vboxsf/utils.c:131: error: assignment of read-only member ‘i_nlink’
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.0.10/build/vboxsf/utils.c: In function ‘sf_nlscpy’:
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.0.10/build/vboxsf/utils.c:562: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘utf8_to_utf32’ from incompatible pointer type
/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-common-rt/include/linux/nls.h:53: note: expected ‘unicode_t *’ but argument is of type ‘wchar_t *’
make[4]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.0.10/build/vboxsf/utils.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.0.10/build/vboxsf] Error 2
make[2]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.0.10/build] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-rt-amd64'


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-rt-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virtualbox-guest-dkms depends on:
ii  dkms               2.1.1.2-5             Dynamic Kernel Module Support Fram
ii  virtualbox-guest-u 4.0.10-dfsg-1~bpo60+1 x86 virtualization solution - non-

virtualbox-guest-dkms recommends no packages.

virtualbox-guest-dkms suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-rt-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virtualbox-guest-dkms depends on:
ii  dkms               2.1.1.2-5             Dynamic Kernel Module Support Fram
ii  virtualbox-guest-u 4.0.10-dfsg-1~bpo60+1 x86 virtualization solution - non-

virtualbox-guest-dkms recommends no packages.

virtualbox-guest-dkms suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information
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