DKMS module and recipe for target '.../virtualbox/5.2.34/build/vboxdrv' failed

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 12:27 AM Valdis Klētnieks
<valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 08:13:00 +0200, Greg KH said:
> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 01:41:23AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > Hi Everyone,
> > >
> > > I recently upgraded Ubuntu 18.04 x86_64 to the 5.4.0-37 kernel.
> > > VirtualBox died, and I am trying to reinstall virtualbox-dkms. The
> > > reinstall fails because the build fails. The log is below.
> > >
> > > Is there anything I can do to solve the problem?
> >
> > Ask the out-of-tree virtualbox developers to fix their code to work with
> > the newer kernel source.  Nothing we can do about that, sorry.
>
> Won't do any good, because...
>
> > cat /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.34/build/make.log
>
> 5.2.34 is a few releases back. 6.1.10 is out, and supports the 5.7 kernel (and
> most of the fixes to support 5.8-rc1 have already landed for 6.1.12).
> They fixed that problem probably close to a year ago.

Thanks Valdis .

A quick question... Why is a 5.4 kernel using 5.2 dkms source code? It
seems to me if Ubuntu used the proper source code, then the problem
would not exist.

Jeff