[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#779025: virtualbox-dkms: kernel module fails to build on linux 4.0-rc1

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi Brian,


yes, the bug is just fixed in HEAD, but no, nobody should/will backport the patch, until the kernel becomes stable
(rc1 is not enough), and a new stable virtualbox is released.

As you can see the patch in the upstream tracker [1] the kernel is going in a deadlock with the patch, so everything should be fixed between kernel and/or virtualbox.

Fixing this stuff in debian is just useless.


(@Ritesh if you want to upload some bad patch on experimental I can point you to the patches [2] [3], but I think we should follow only stable kernel releases, not nightly commits, and I guess the kernel will change a lot prior to 4.0 stable, also virtualbox)

[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13835

[2] https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/54461
[3] https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/54391


cheers,

up to you! and please if you rebuild virtualbox with the patch and you encounter a deadlock feel free to report it on the kernel mail list on the virtualbox bug tracker :)


Gianfranco


Il Giovedì 26 Febbraio 2015 16:33, Brian Minton <brian at minton.name> ha scritto:
Package: virtualbox-dkms
Version: 4.3.22-dfsg-1
Followup-For: Bug #779025

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Dear Maintainer,

The bug is still present in the latest version from experimental.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-rc1+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages virtualbox-dkms depends on:
ii  dkms        2.2.0.3-2
ii  dpkg        1.17.24
ii  virtualbox  4.3.22-dfsg-1

virtualbox-dkms recommends no packages.

virtualbox-dkms suggests no packages.

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