[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#886747: virtualbox-dkms: DKMS build fails with missing SUPDrv-linux.o

[Gregor Riepl]

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

Dear Maintainer,

After upgrading linux-image-amd64 and linux-headers-amd64, virtualbox-dkms
fails to build the vbox modules with DKMS. libelf-dev is installed, so this is
not https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=886474 .

Looking at /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.4/build/make.log, the following error
message is shown:
make[4]: *** No rule to make target
'/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.4/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o', needed by
'/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.4/build/vboxdrv/vboxdrv.o'.  Stop.
(the rest is attached)

This looks very similar to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833500 - where an additional build tool is required when
CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION is enabled.

Is this related or a completely different error?
I do not know how to make DKMS produce a more verbose make log.

I tried purging linux-headers-amd64, dkms, virtualbox and virtualbox-dkms, and
also removing /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox, but this did not help. After
reinstalling virtualbox-dkms, the error is back.

Thanks.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'unstable-debug'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB: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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DKMS make.log for virtualbox-5.2.4 for kernel 4.14.0-3-amd64 (x86_64)
Tue  9 Jan 14:47:43 CET 2018
make: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.0-3-amd64'
  AR      /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.4/build/built-in.o
make[4]: *** No rule to make target '/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.4/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o', needed by '/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.4/build/vboxdrv/vboxdrv.o'.  Stop.
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  AR      /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.4/build/vboxdrv/built-in.o
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.0-3-common/scripts/Makefile.build:578: recipe for target '/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.4/build/vboxdrv' failed
make[3]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.4/build/vboxdrv] Error 2
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.0-3-common/Makefile:1525: recipe for target '_module_/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.4/build' failed
make[2]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.4/build] Error 2
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'