virtualbox-dkms: virtualbox kernel module failed to build [gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-fstack-protector-strong’]

[ndeubert]

just ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade and got this.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: virtualbox-dkms 5.0.10-dfsg-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-17.21-generic 4.2.3
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
DKMSKernelVersion: 4.2.0-17-generic
Date: Tue Dec 1 14:24:45 2015
DuplicateSignature: dkms:virtualbox-dkms:5.0.10-dfsg-2ubuntu1:gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-fstack-protector-strong’
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-05 (179 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
PackageVersion: 5.0.10-dfsg-2ubuntu1
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.2ubuntu5.1
 apt 1.0.10.2ubuntu1
SourcePackage: virtualbox
Title: virtualbox-dkms 5.0.10-dfsg-2ubuntu1: virtualbox kernel module failed to build
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-11-02 (29 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hi, for some reasons you seem to have not kmk to build the modules, maybe something like
echo $MAKE

and export MAKE=kmk might help.

cheers,

G.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Ville Nummela (ville-nummela)]

Building kernel drivers for newer kernels requires gcc 4.9. Workaround steps:

apt-get install gcc-4.9
rm /usr/bin/gcc
ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-4.9 /usr/bin/gcc
dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms