[Bug 1818049] Re: virtualbox dkms modules fail to build with linux 4.4.0-143.169 [error: too many arguments to function ‘get_user_pages’]

2019-03-20 Thread Peter Milner
Gianfranco: This issue affects the archive release of virtualbox on Xenial. This what I was using when I encountered this bug. In the process of trying to get up and running again, I attempted to use the Oracle packages ... but they were also affected by this bug. It affects both sets of packages.

[Bug 1818049] Re: virtualbox dkms modules fail to build with linux 4.4.0-143.169 [error: too many arguments to function ‘get_user_pages’]

2019-03-20 Thread Peter Milner
Sorry ... reverting to -142 ... (not -143) was the workaround. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1818049 Title: virtualbox dkms modules fail to build with linux 4.4.0-143.169 [error: t

[Bug 1818049] Re: virtualbox dkms modules fail to build with linux 4.4.0-143.169 [error: too many arguments to function ‘get_user_pages’]

2019-03-17 Thread Peter Milner
I also encountered this issue after upgrading to 4.4.0-143 on xenial this evening. Virtualbox modules could not be loaded e.g. vboxdrv. After attempting many solutions including updating to the latest version of virtual box I ended up here. My /var/log/vbox-setup.log was bascially identical to arQo