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virtualbox-dkms 4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.6: virtualbox kernel module failed to build

Bug #1342624 reported by Timothy (TRiG) on 2014-07-16

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1292118: virtualbox-dkms 4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.6: virtualbox kernel module failed to build [error: incompatible types when returning type ‘kuid_t’ but ‘RTUID’ was expected]. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	virtualbox (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I do not usually check for updates, waiting till I'm prompted automatically. On this occasion, however, I did. The updater found only firmware updates (displayed in a box at the top, not where updates are usually shown). As I installed the updates, this bug was automatically reported.

There do seem to be some similar bugs in the list but (a) the version numbers are different and (b) they don't say they were triggered by a firmware upgrade. So I'm reporting this one separately.

I very rarely actually use VirtualBox, and am unaware of anything being broken.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: virtualbox-dkms 4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-24.42~precise1-generic 3.11.10.11
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: amd64
DKMSKernelVersion: 3.13.0-30-generic
Date: Wed Jul 16 10:13:45 2014
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20140204)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
PackageVersion: 4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.6
SourcePackage: virtualbox
Title: virtualbox-dkms 4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.6: virtualbox kernel module failed to build
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Timothy (TRiG) (timothy-green) wrote on 2014-07-16:

DKMSBuildLog.txt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DuplicateSignature.txt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LsMod.txt Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VirtualBox.DpkgList.txt Edit (3.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VirtualBox.ModInfo.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2014-07-16

tags:

removed: need-duplicate-check

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2014-07-16:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in virtualbox (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131) wrote on 2014-07-17:

Ubuntu will probably not put a new version of virtualbox in the main repo (because I don't think they guarantee upgrades of binary modules on LTS releases).

PPA is probably the best solution here: https://launchpad.net/~ricotz/+archive/ubuntu/virtualization

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2014-07-17:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1292118, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.