[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#762061: virtualbox-dkms fails to build on standard 3.14.15 kernel

[Omar Radwan]

Package: virtualbox-dkms
Version: 4.3.14-dfsg-1
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

        I recently got Debian installed on my laptop. Everything went smoothly,
except getting virtualbox to work was a nightmare. The virtualbox-dkms package
on Debian Testing, which at the moment is using linux 3.14, fails to build or
install.

        I realized that the only way to get it working was to download a kernel
source from kernel.org, I got the 3.14.15 kernel, compile and install it
myself, then boot from it, this was the only way to get virtualbox working on
my machine. I don't think that a significant amount Debian users, which aren't
very proficient in unix-like systems, would have the expertise to compile their
own kernel and install.

        After I compiled and installed the new kernel. I did "dpkg-reconfigure
virtualbox-dkms", and it compiled the package and I was able to use virtualbox.


PS: I'm using virtualbox 4.3.14



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14.15 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virtualbox-dkms depends on:
ii  dkms        2.2.0.3-1.2
ii  dpkg        1.17.13
ii  virtualbox  4.3.14-dfsg-1

virtualbox-dkms recommends no packages.

virtualbox-dkms suggests no packages.

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