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package virtualbox-ose-dkms 3.1.6-dfsg-2ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: virtualbox-ose kernel module failed to build

Bug #881926 reported by Johannes Hyvärinen on 2011-10-26

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #705593: package virtualbox-ose-dkms * failed to install/upgrade: virtualbox-ose kernel module failed to build (types.h:97:31: fatal error: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory). Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I guess something failed when doing a routine update to installed packages. I don't think Update Manager prompted me about any problems, I only noticed the "crash" icon in the systray later.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: virtualbox-ose-dkms 3.1.6-dfsg-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50~lucid1-generic-pae 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 26 09:20:02 2011
ErrorMessage: virtualbox-ose kernel module failed to build
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
PackageVersion: 3.1.6-dfsg-2ubuntu2
SourcePackage: virtualbox-ose
Title: package virtualbox-ose-dkms 3.1.6-dfsg-2ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: virtualbox-ose kernel module failed to build
VirtualBoxOse.ModInfo:

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Johannes Hyvärinen (jhy) wrote on 2011-10-26:

DKMSBuildLog.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (822 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LsMod.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VirtualBoxOse.DpkgList.txt Edit (7.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2011-10-27:

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 705593, 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.

This bug is caused by upgrading your kernel, which the old version of Virtualbox in Ubuntu 10.04 does not support. To avoid it you can either switch back to the kernel that Ubuntu 10.04 shipped with (2.6.32), or upgrade to a newer version of Ubuntu with a newer kernel.