karmic to lucid upgrade: virtualbox modules fail to built and cause upgrade to fail

[Alexander Sack]

Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose

Just upgraded from karmic to lucid ...

Loading new virtualbox-ose-3.1.2 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building for 2.6.31-17-generic and 2.6.32-rc4
Building initial module for 2.6.31-17-generic

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.31-17-generic (i686)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.1.2/build/ for more information.
dpkg: error processing virtualbox-ose-dkms (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox-ose-source:
 virtualbox-ose-source depends on virtualbox-ose-dkms (>= 3.1.2-dfsg-1ubuntu1); however:
  Package virtualbox-ose-dkms is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing virtualbox-ose-source (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

guess this should be targetted for lucid as it breaks upgrades.

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

Could you please attach the make.log file from /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.1.2/build/

[hexion (hexium)]

$ cat /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.1.2/build/make.log

DKMS make.log for virtualbox-ose-3.1.2 for kernel 2.6.33-020633rc8-generic (x86_64)
mar feb 16 01:46:43 GMT 2010
make: se ingresa al directorio `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.33-020633rc8-generic'
  LD /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.1.2/build/vboxdrv/built-in.o
  CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.1.2/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o
In file included from /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.1.2/build/include/VBox/types.h:34,
                 from /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.1.2/build/vboxdrv/linux/../SUPDrvInternal.h:39,
                 from /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.1.2/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:37:
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.1.2/build/include/iprt/types.h:100:30: error: linux/autoconf.h: No existe el fichero ó directorio
make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.1.2/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.1.2/build/vboxdrv] Error 2
make: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.1.2/build] Error 2
make: se sale del directorio `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.33-020633rc8-generic'

The problem is explained here:
http://vbox.innotek.de/pipermail/vbox-dev/2009-December/002162.html

Although they clarify in a newer email that the final fix was different.

[hexion (hexium)]

http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/25591

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

The original bug report was about kernel 2.6.31-17-generic.
For kernel 2.6.33: bug #520168

[Jan Gutter (ubuntu-jangutter)]

Wow, and I had such high hopes for my first upgrade (Karmic->Lucid)!

It seems the Ubuntu developers are not really interested in fixing this problem, or the many other open bugs. The workaround obviously appears to uninstall virtualbox before upgrading, yet nobody seemed to mention it on the Lucid upgrade site...

Ah well.

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for posting this bug.

As per bug 52016 this issues is resolved. Marking as such.