On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 08:58:05PM +0000, Alex Arvelaez wrote: > > I've been AWOL working on other things for an age, so just getting back up to speed and building a kernel. Everything built successfully but when I try to install the kernel (64bit laptop) it fails due to a virtualbox error. > > > > ERROR (dkms apport): kernel package linux-headers-4.16.0-rc5 is not supported > > Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.16.0-rc5 (x86_64) > > Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.0.40/build/make.log for more information. > > > > I've had a look at that log file but it doesn't say a whole lot more: > > > > ...linux/scripts/Makefile.build:583: recipe for target '/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.0.40/build/vboxdrv' failed > > make[5]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.0.40/build/vboxdrv] Error 2 > > Makefile:1552: recipe for target '_module_/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.0.40/build' failed > > make[4]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.0.40/build] Error 2 > > Makefile:24: recipe for target '__sub-make' failed > > make[3]: *** [__sub-make] Error 2 > > > > An Internet search did throw up a few pages about a virtualbox error [1] but I'm not sure the relevance to installing a Linux Kernel. Unless 'sudo make install' is running an Ubuntu script which tries to mess with virtual box. I have removed virtualbox from this machine and tried again but I've still got the same error message in the install process. Maybe I have to reboot after removing virtualbox but it still seems a bit tightly coupled? > > you probably want to remove virtualbox-dkms. Your system is trying to recompile the vbox driver for your newly compiled kernel and failing because it's not supported. > > I'm not sure what triggers dkms specifically so I'm not sure how to avoid it. > > Regards, > > Alex Thanks a million Alex, as you suggested removing that package got me up and running. John _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
