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

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Hello George,

That's an interesting problem.

Can you please share the output of:

ls -l /lib/modules/`uname -r`



On Thu, 2015-12-24 at 11:00 +0000, George B. wrote:
> 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.
-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."

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