On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 08:58:05PM +0000, Alex Arvelaez wrote:
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.
ERROR (dkms apport): kernel package linux-headers-4.16.0-rc5 is not supported Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.16.0-rc5 (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.0.40/build/make.log for more information.
I've had a look at that log file but it doesn't say a whole lot more:
...linux/scripts/Makefile.build:583: recipe for target '/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.0.40/build/vboxdrv' failed make[5]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.0.40/build/vboxdrv] Error 2 Makefile:1552: recipe for target '_module_/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.0.40/build' failed make[4]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.0.40/build] Error 2 Makefile:24: recipe for target '__sub-make' failed make[3]: *** [__sub-make] Error 2
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?
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.
I'm not sure what triggers dkms specifically so I'm not sure how to avoid it.
Regards,
Alex
Thanks a million Alex, as you suggested removing that package got me up and running. John