[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#886629: virtualbox-dkms: missing dependency libelf-dev

[Kaijie Chen]

Package: virtualbox-dkms
Version: 5.2.4-dfsg-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

dpkg fails to configure virtualbox-dkms. Install libelf-dev fixed the
problem.

Loading new virtualbox-5.2.4 DKMS files...
Building for 4.14.0-3-amd64
Building initial module for 4.14.0-3-amd64
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.14.0-3-amd64 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.4/build/make.log for more information.

$ cat /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.4/build/make.log
DKMS make.log for virtualbox-5.2.4 for kernel 4.14.0-3-amd64 (x86_64)
Mon Jan  8 16:43:47 CST 2018
make: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.0-3-amd64'
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.0-3-common/Makefile:947: *** "Cannot generate
ORC metadata for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC=y, please install libelf-dev,
libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel".  Stop.
Makefile:146: recipe for target 'sub-make' failed
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
Makefile:8: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.0-3-amd64'

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

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages virtualbox-dkms depends on:
ii  dkms  2.3-3

Versions of packages virtualbox-dkms recommends:
ii  virtualbox  5.2.4-dfsg-2

virtualbox-dkms suggests no packages.

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