[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#808910: virtualbox-guest-dkms: Module build skipped - kernel source not found

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi, do you have this package installed?

https://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/linux-headers-4.3.0-1-686/filelist

I tried on a sid i386 chroot and everything succeeeded well

Building initial module for 4.3.0-1-686

Done.

vboxguest:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/4.3.0-1-686/updates/

vboxsf.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/4.3.0-1-686/updates/

vboxvideo.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/4.3.0-1-686/updates/

depmod....

DKMS: install completed.
Processing triggers for systemd (228-2+b1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-5) ...


cheers,

G.

Il Giovedì 24 Dicembre 2015 12:00, George B. <i93.borg at gmail.com> ha scritto:
Package: virtualbox-guest-dkms
Version: 5.0.12-dfsg-1
Severity: important

Hello,

For some reason the installer can't find kernel source so it skips building the module:

```
Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox-guest-dkms_5.0.12-dfsg-1_all.deb ...

------------------------------
Deleting module version: 5.0.12
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
Unpacking virtualbox-guest-dkms (5.0.12-dfsg-1) over (5.0.12-dfsg-1) ...
Setting up virtualbox-guest-dkms (5.0.12-dfsg-1) ...
Loading new virtualbox-guest-5.0.12 DKMS files...
Building only for 4.3.0-1-686
Module build for the currently running kernel was skipped since the
kernel source for this kernel does not seem to be installed.
```

However, the headers (and even the source package) are actually installed.

```
$ uname -a
Linux debian-386 4.3.0-1-686 #1 SMP Debian 4.3.3-2 (2015-12-17) i686 GNU/Linux

$ dpkg -l | grep linux- | awk '{print $2}'
linux-headers-4.3.0-1-686-pae
linux-headers-4.3.0-1-common
linux-headers-686-pae
linux-source
linux-source-4.3
```

Not 100% sure if this is a problem with this package or DKMS in general, but starting here - please reassign if you think necessary.


Thanks,

George


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages virtualbox-guest-dkms depends on:
ii  dkms                    2.2.0.3-2
ii  virtualbox-guest-utils  5.0.12-dfsg-1

virtualbox-guest-dkms recommends no packages.

virtualbox-guest-dkms suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information