virtualbox-dkms 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2: virtualbox kernel module failed to build [error: implicit declaration of function ‘init_timer_pinned’]

[Agent24]

I'm not sure if this needs to be reported, but Ubuntu wanted me to, so I did.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: virtualbox-dkms 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-13.14~16.04.1-lowlatency 4.15.10
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-13-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
Architecture: amd64
DKMSKernelVersion: 4.15.0-13-lowlatency
Date: Sat Apr 7 06:59:02 2018
DuplicateSignature: dkms:virtualbox-dkms:5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2:/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.0.40/build/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/timer-r0drv-linux.c:1588:13: error: implicit declaration of function ‘init_timer_pinned’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-06-24 (286 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215)
PackageArchitecture: all
PackageVersion: 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.4
 apt 1.2.26
SourcePackage: virtualbox
Title: virtualbox-dkms 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2: virtualbox kernel module failed to build
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade should do the trick

[Agent24 (tda7000)]

Hmm. Running a system update is what caused the error in the first place.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

apt-get update && apt-get install virtualbox virtualbox-dkms please?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

It looks like you will also need the fix for bug 1760876.

[Agent24 (tda7000)]

running update again (apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade) through terminal seems to have fixed it, or, there were no errors I noticed in the output, anyway.

[Kate L (kate.l)]

There is some bug, I think.

[James Harkins (biz-dewdrop-world)]

After the last kernel update (4.15.0-29-lowlatency #31~16.04), I encountered this error. To resolve it, I needed to `apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade` *and* it was necessary to disable UEFI secure boot or the vboxdrv module would not launch.

The bug is not resolved, in that a kernel update to this version is not clean and trouble-free.

*** Dialog upon launching virtualbox

Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall virtualbox-dkms package and load the kernel module by executing

'modprobe vboxdrv'

as root.

where: suplibOsInit what: 3 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT.

*** Kernel module reinstall console text:

DKMS: install completed.
Job for virtualbox.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status virtualbox.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed.
● virtualbox.service - LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/virtualbox; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2018-08-01 15:37:14 EDT; 4ms ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 7472 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/virtualbox start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Aug 01 15:37:14 xiaogou systemd[1]: Starting LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel m.....
Aug 01 15:37:14 xiaogou virtualbox[7472]: * Loading VirtualBox kernel modul....
Aug 01 15:37:14 xiaogou virtualbox[7472]: * modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please...y
Aug 01 15:37:14 xiaogou virtualbox[7472]: ...fail!
Aug 01 15:37:14 xiaogou systemd[1]: virtualbox.service: Control process exi...=1
Aug 01 15:37:14 xiaogou systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: VirtualBox Linux k...e.
Aug 01 15:37:14 xiaogou systemd[1]: virtualbox.service: Unit entered failed...e.
Aug 01 15:37:14 xiaogou systemd[1]: virtualbox.service: Failed with result ...'.