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

Bug #1359923 reported by Benjamin on 2014-08-21

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

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

Bug Description

I upgraded the 12.04LTS hardware stack and virtualbox stopped working and it won't build the VB kernel. The linux kernal is 3.13.0-34

Below is the log output:

DKMS make.log for virtualbox-4.1.12 for kernel 3.13.0-34-generic (x86_64)
Thu Aug 21 12:00:00 PDT 2014
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-34-generic'
  LD /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.12/build/built-in.o
  LD /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.12/build/vboxdrv/built-in.o
  CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.12/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.12/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c: In function ‘vboxdrvLinuxUid’:
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.12/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:226:5: error: incompatible types when returning type ‘kuid_t’ but ‘RTUID’ was expected
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.12/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c: In function ‘vboxdrvLinuxGid’:
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.12/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:235:5: error: incompatible types when returning type ‘kgid_t’ but ‘RTGID’ was expected
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.12/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c: In function ‘vboxdrvLinuxEuid’:
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.12/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:244:5: error: incompatible types when returning type ‘kuid_t’ but ‘RTUID’ was expected
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.12/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:248:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.12/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c: In function ‘vboxdrvLinuxUid’:
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.12/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:230:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.12/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c: In function ‘vboxdrvLinuxGid’:
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.12/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:239:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.12/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.12/build/vboxdrv] Error 2
make: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.12/build] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-34-generic'

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: virtualbox-dkms 4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-34.60~precise1-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-34-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: amd64
DKMSKernelVersion: 3.13.0-34-generic
Date: Thu Aug 21 12:00:04 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)
VirtualBox.ModInfo:

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Benjamin (sleepingawake86) wrote on 2014-08-21:

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 (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VirtualBox.DpkgList.txt Edit (6.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2014-08-21

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2014-08-22:

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.