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<p dir="ltr">> I've been AWOL working on other things for an age, so just getting back up to speed and building a kernel. Everything built successfully but when I try to install the kernel (64bit laptop) it fails due to a virtualbox error.<br>
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> ERROR (dkms apport): kernel package linux-headers-4.16.0-rc5 is not supported<br>
> Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.16.0-rc5 (x86_64)<br>
> Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.0.40/build/make.log for more information.<br>
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> I've had a look at that log file but it doesn't say a whole lot more:<br>
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> ...linux/scripts/Makefile.build:583: recipe for target '/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.0.40/build/vboxdrv' failed<br>
> make[5]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.0.40/build/vboxdrv] Error 2<br>
> Makefile:1552: recipe for target '_module_/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.0.40/build' failed<br>
> make[4]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.0.40/build] Error 2<br>
> Makefile:24: recipe for target '__sub-make' failed<br>
> make[3]: *** [__sub-make] Error 2<br>
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> An Internet search did throw up a few pages about a virtualbox error [1] but I'm not sure the relevance to installing a Linux Kernel. Unless 'sudo make install' is running an Ubuntu script which tries to mess with virtual box. I have removed virtualbox from
this machine and tried again but I've still got the same error message in the install process. Maybe I have to reboot after removing virtualbox but it still seems a bit tightly coupled?
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<p dir="ltr">you probably want to remove virtualbox-dkms. Your system is trying to recompile the vbox driver for your newly compiled kernel and failing because it's not supported.
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<p dir="ltr">I'm not sure what triggers dkms specifically so I'm not sure how to avoid it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Alex </p>
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