FTBFS on 3.5.0-25-generic

[Ahmed Kamal]

open-vm-tools fail to build on the new kernel for precise (3.5.0-25-generic)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-23.35~precise1-generic 3.5.7.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar 8 02:46:40 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130120)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: open-vm-tools
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Yolanda Robla (yolanda.robla)]

Thanks for reporting this
Please can you attach logs of the failure? Thanks

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Blake Benthall (blake-g)]

This bug also affects me in the exact same way as described in this thread (by another user): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2122637

[Blake Benthall (blake-g)]

Logs attached, specific errors during compile on 3.5.0-23-generic inside of ESXi 5.0 hypervisor are:

/var/lib/dkms/open-vm-tools/2011.12.20/build/vmhgfs/filesystem.c:392:4: error: implicit declaration of function ‘d_alloc_root’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
/var/lib/dkms/open-vm-tools/2011.12.20/build/vmhgfs/filesystem.c:392:15: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
...
  CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/open-vm-tools/2011.12.20/build/vmxnet/vmxnet.o
/var/lib/dkms/open-vm-tools/2011.12.20/build/vmxnet/vmxnet.c:509:4: error: unknown field ‘get_rx_csum’ specified in initializer

[Blake Benthall (blake-g)]

Correction: kernel modules fail to build, not the vm-tools themselves.

[Blake Benthall (blake-g)]

Installing the binary from Raring fixed it, but is still broken with Precise's package.

root@app01:~# dpkg -i open-vm-dkms_2013.04.16-1098359-0ubuntu1_all.deb
Selecting previously unselected package open-vm-dkms.
(Reading database ... 81610 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking open-vm-dkms (from open-vm-dkms_2013.04.16-1098359-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Setting up open-vm-dkms (2013.04.16-1098359-0ubuntu1) ...
Loading new open-vm-tools-2013.04.16 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 3.5.0-23-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 3.5.0-23-generic
Done.

vmblock:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.5.0-23-generic/updates/dkms/

vmci.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.5.0-23-generic/updates/dkms/

vmhgfs.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.5.0-23-generic/updates/dkms/

vmxnet.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.5.0-23-generic/updates/dkms/

vsock.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.5.0-23-generic/updates/dkms/

depmod....

DKMS: install completed.