Package: virtualbox-dkms Version: 5.2.4-dfsg-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** after upgrading last week i noticed that virtualbox does not work, it cannot load it's kernel driver. now i had enough time to take a closer look on it and found that libelf-dev is a new dependency. after installing it, virtualbox works as excepted. please find the log below. thanks, csaba mate mc36@acer:~$ sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-dkms Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: dkms Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it. The following packages will be REMOVED: virtualbox-dkms 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 5,391 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 398122 files and directories currently installed.) Removing virtualbox-dkms (5.2.4-dfsg-2) ... -------- Uninstall Beginning -------- Module: virtualbox Version: 5.2.4 Kernel: 4.14.0-2-amd64 (x86_64) ------------------------------------- Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel. vboxdrv.ko: - Uninstallation - Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.14.0-2-amd64/updates/dkms/ - Original module - No original module was found for this module on this kernel. - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version. vboxnetadp.ko: - Uninstallation - Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.14.0-2-amd64/updates/dkms/ - Original module - No original module was found for this module on this kernel. - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version. vboxnetflt.ko: - Uninstallation - Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.14.0-2-amd64/updates/dkms/ - Original module - No original module was found for this module on this kernel. - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version. vboxpci.ko: - Uninstallation - Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.14.0-2-amd64/updates/dkms/ - Original module - No original module was found for this module on this kernel. - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version. depmod... DKMS: uninstall completed. ------------------------------ Deleting module version: 5.2.4 completely from the DKMS tree. ------------------------------ Done. mc36@acer:~$ sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-dkms Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package 'virtualbox-dkms' is not installed, so not removed The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: dkms Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. mc36@acer:~$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-dkms Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: virtualbox-dkms 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 680 kB of archives. After this operation, 5,391 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian sid/contrib amd64 virtualbox-dkms all 5.2.4-dfsg-2 [680 kB] Fetched 680 kB in 1s (711 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-dkms. (Reading database ... 397831 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox-dkms_5.2.4-dfsg-2_all.deb ... Unpacking virtualbox-dkms (5.2.4-dfsg-2) ... Setting up virtualbox-dkms (5.2.4-dfsg-2) ... Loading new virtualbox-5.2.4 DKMS files... Building for 4.14.0-3-amd64 Building initial module for 4.14.0-3-amd64 Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.14.0-3-amd64 (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.4/build/make.log for more information. mc36@acer:~$ cat /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.4/build/make.log DKMS make.log for virtualbox-5.2.4 for kernel 4.14.0-3-amd64 (x86_64) Sun Jan 14 17:00:26 CET 2018 make: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.0-3-amd64' /usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.0-3-common/Makefile:947: *** "Cannot generate ORC metadata for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC=y, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel". Stop. Makefile:146: recipe for target 'sub-make' failed make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2 Makefile:8: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 2 make: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.0-3-amd64' mc36@acer:~$ sudo apt-get install libelf-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libelf-dev 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 71.5 kB of archives. After this operation, 372 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 libelf-dev amd64 0.170-0.2 [71.5 kB] Fetched 71.5 kB in 0s (167 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package libelf-dev:amd64. (Reading database ... 398125 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libelf-dev_0.170-0.2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libelf-dev:amd64 (0.170-0.2) ... Setting up libelf-dev:amd64 (0.170-0.2) ... mc36@acer:~$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-dkms Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done virtualbox-dkms is already the newest version (5.2.4-dfsg-2). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. mc36@acer:~$ sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-dkms Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: dkms Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it. The following packages will be REMOVED: virtualbox-dkms 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 5,391 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 398135 files and directories currently installed.) Removing virtualbox-dkms (5.2.4-dfsg-2) ... ------------------------------ Deleting module version: 5.2.4 completely from the DKMS tree. ------------------------------ Done. mc36@acer:~$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-dkms Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: virtualbox-dkms 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/680 kB of archives. After this operation, 5,391 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-dkms. (Reading database ... 397844 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox-dkms_5.2.4-dfsg-2_all.deb ... Unpacking virtualbox-dkms (5.2.4-dfsg-2) ... Setting up virtualbox-dkms (5.2.4-dfsg-2) ... Loading new virtualbox-5.2.4 DKMS files... Building for 4.14.0-3-amd64 Building initial module for 4.14.0-3-amd64 Done. vboxdrv: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/4.14.0-3-amd64/updates/dkms/ vboxnetadp.ko: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/4.14.0-3-amd64/updates/dkms/ vboxnetflt.ko: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/4.14.0-3-amd64/updates/dkms/ vboxpci.ko: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/4.14.0-3-amd64/updates/dkms/ depmod... DKMS: install completed. mc36@acer:~$ *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages virtualbox-dkms depends on: ii dkms 2.3-3 Versions of packages virtualbox-dkms recommends: ii virtualbox 5.2.4-dfsg-2 virtualbox-dkms suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
