Bug#780939: virtualbox-dkms does not work for backported kernels.

2015-09-19 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Georg, >Does this mean, if running jessie and a backported kernel, each time the >kernel receives an update, virtualbox has to be updated as well? well, each virtualbox release is guaranteed to build (except for bugs of course) to kernels up to a particular version (e.g. 5.0.4 build fine u

Bug#780939: virtualbox-dkms does not work for backported kernels.

2015-09-19 Thread Aron Xu
On Saturday, September 19, 2015, ge...@riseup.net wrote: > Hi, > > Just a quick follow-up question: > > On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 05:11:58 + (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna < > costamagnagianfra...@yahoo.it > wrote: > > Unfortunately we can't know *in advance* the kernel that will be > > backported to

Bug#780939: virtualbox-dkms does not work for backported kernels.

2015-09-19 Thread ge...@riseup.net
Hi, Just a quick follow-up question: On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 05:11:58 + (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Unfortunately we can't know *in advance* the kernel that will be > backported to jessie, so we can't make it build with a newer kernel > that the one in jessie when it was released. Doe

Bug#780939: virtualbox-dkms does not work for backported kernels.

2015-09-13 Thread Omer van der Horst Jansen
I'm encountering what's probably the same issue. omer@triton:~$ aptitude show linux-headers-`uname -r` Package: linux-headers-4.1.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 State: installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 4.1.6-1~bpo8+1 Priority: optional Section: kernel Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team Architecture: a

Bug#780939: virtualbox-dkms does not work for backported kernels.

2015-03-22 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Control: tag -1 +moreinfo What is the output of: ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ -l On Sunday 22 March 2015 01:13 PM, dE wrote: > Package: virtualbox-dkms > Version: 4.3.18-dfsg-2~bpo70+1 > Severity: important > > virtualbox-dkms does not work for backported kernels. > > # dpkg-reconfigure virtualb

Bug#780939: virtualbox-dkms does not work for backported kernels.

2015-03-22 Thread dE
Package: virtualbox-dkms Version: 4.3.18-dfsg-2~bpo70+1 Severity: important virtualbox-dkms does not work for backported kernels. # dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms -- Deleting module version: 4.3.18 completely from the DKMS tree. -- Done.