Arch Linux User Repository

The only changes to PKGBUILD between 5.2.2 and 5.2.4 are:

pkgver=5.2.4
_build=119785

md5sums=('70973209cc9bc0e82e40a34362061f96'
     '2d04c2e2d8c71558c910a51ec773731a'
     'fe60f9510502bea67383d9198ae8c13c'
     'c159d683ba1947290fc2ad2c64194150'
     '3ac185709bfe688bb753c46e170d0546'
     '31144fa409c0d7c6b464d44b2140b521'
     '05175249e1206c491b2b36670e8db9ec'
     'c32a61f3a1611e184098cc9b0d6765bb')

All diff/patch hunks succeed, but several will be off by 1 - 8 bytes of context. So for future updates, I suspect new diffs will need to be taken. For now, the changes above have 5.2.4 happily installed and running with the extension-pack just as they always have.

If it helps, the update PKGBUILD update required for 5.2.2 is simply:

pkgver=5.2.2 _build=119230

Works fine -- even loads the modules after install (unlike 5.2.0 -- but still messes with the setvideomodehint for current vms) Smoother than 5.2.0. It's a keeper. (not to mention the forced move to 5.2.X due to the 4.14 kernel update)

Linux 4.14.3-1 is provided by "Core". Trying to build the modules still results in the same errors. "Linux hosts: fixed kernel module compilation and start failures with Linux kernel 4.14 (bug #17267)" - https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

Ralf

I don't use the testing repos.

If someone does and would like to submit a patch, I'd be happy to add it.

My apologies for not posting the output elsewhere and just posting a link here.

virtualbox-bin-5.2.0-1 was build from your tarball. I only looked at the OSE version for comparison. As already pointed out, despite the messages the modules were build, at least for kernel versions < 4.14.0. Bevor I rebuild the package from your tarball, I reinstalled the already build package. The link always is against /usr/src/virtualbox-bin. Even after fixing the link, the modules for 4.14.0 from testing were not build.

[rocketmouse@archlinux current]$ sudo pacman -U virtualbox-bin-5.2.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
[snip]
warning: virtualbox-bin-5.2.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
[snip]
warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/src/
filesystem: 775 package: 755

==> Remember to add allowed users to the vboxusers group:
==> # gpasswd -a USERNAME vboxusers
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/5) Install DKMS modules
==> dkms install vboxhost/5.2.0 -k 4.13.13-rt5-1-rt
==> dkms install vboxhost/5.2.0 -k 4.14.0-2-ARCH
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.14.0-2-ARCH (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.2.0/build/make.log for more information.
==> dkms install vboxhost/5.2.0 -k 4.11.12-rt16-1-rt-cornflower
==> dkms install vboxhost/5.2.0 -k 4.14.0-rt1-1-rt-pussytoes
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.14.0-rt1-1-rt-pussytoes (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.2.0/build/make.log for more information.
(2/5) Updating icon theme caches...
(3/5) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(4/5) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache...
(5/5) Updating the MIME type database...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'

[rocketmouse@archlinux current]$ ls -hAl /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/
total 4.0K
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Nov 19 17:41 bin
[rocketmouse@archlinux current]$ ls -hAl /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/bin/
total 4.0K
drwxr-xr-x 3 rocketmouse rocketmouse 4.0K Nov 19 17:42 build
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov 14 09:34 source -> /usr/src/virtualbox-bin
[rocketmouse@archlinux current]$ ls -hAld /usr/src/v*
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Nov 19 21:16 /usr/src/vboxhost-5.2.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 rocketmouse rocketmouse 4.0K Sep 17 20:40 /usr/src/virtualbox-bin

[rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ wget -q https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/virtualbox-bin.tar.gz
[rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ tar xf virtualbox-bin.tar.gz
[rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ cd virtualbox-bin/
[rocketmouse@archlinux virtualbox-bin]$ cp -ai PKGBUILD PKGBUILD~
[rocketmouse@archlinux virtualbox-bin]$ nano PKGBUILD
[rocketmouse@archlinux virtualbox-bin]$ diff PKGBUILD PKGBUILD~
8c8
< pkgrel=2
---
> pkgrel=1
[rocketmouse@archlinux virtualbox-bin]$ makepkg -s
[snip]
==> Finished making: virtualbox-bin 5.2.0-2 (Sun Nov 19 21:52:04 CET 2017)
[rocketmouse@archlinux virtualbox-bin]$ sudo pacman -U virtualbox-bin-5.2.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
[snip]
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) upgrading virtualbox-bin [snip] 100%
warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/src/
filesystem: 775 package: 755

==> Remember to add allowed users to the vboxusers group:
==> # gpasswd -a USERNAME vboxusers
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/5) Install DKMS modules
==> dkms install vboxhost/5.2.0 -k 4.13.13-rt5-1-rt
==> dkms install vboxhost/5.2.0 -k 4.14.0-2-ARCH
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.14.0-2-ARCH (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.2.0/build/make.log for more information.
==> dkms install vboxhost/5.2.0 -k 4.11.12-rt16-1-rt-cornflower
==> dkms install vboxhost/5.2.0 -k 4.14.0-rt1-1-rt-pussytoes
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.14.0-rt1-1-rt-pussytoes (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.2.0/build/make.log for more information.
(2/5) Updating icon theme caches...
(3/5) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(4/5) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache...
(5/5) Updating the MIME type database...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'

[rocketmouse@archlinux virtualbox-bin]$ ls -hAl /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/
total 4.0K
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Nov 19 17:41 bin
[rocketmouse@archlinux virtualbox-bin]$ ls -hAl /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/bin/
total 4.0K
drwxr-xr-x 3 rocketmouse rocketmouse 4.0K Nov 19 17:42 build
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov 14 09:34 source -> /usr/src/virtualbox-bin
[rocketmouse@archlinux virtualbox-bin]$ ls -hAld /usr/src/v*
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Nov 19 21:54 /usr/src/vboxhost-5.2.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 rocketmouse rocketmouse 4.0K Sep 17 20:40 /usr/src/virtualbox-bin

JFTR

[rocketmouse@archlinux virtualbox-bin]$ ls -hAld /usr/src/
drwxrwxr-x 43 root rocketmouse 4.0K Nov 18 08:00 /usr/src/

Fixing the link

[rocketmouse@archlinux virtualbox-bin]$ sudo unlink /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/bin/source
[sudo] password for rocketmouse:
[rocketmouse@archlinux virtualbox-bin]$ sudo ln -s /usr/src/vboxhost-5.2.0 /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/bin/source
[rocketmouse@archlinux virtualbox-bin]$ ls -hAl /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/bin/
total 4.0K
drwxr-xr-x 3 rocketmouse rocketmouse 4.0K Nov 19 17:42 build
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov 19 22:05 source -> /usr/src/vboxhost-5.2.0

4.14.0-2-ARCH is from testing, but my Arch install is an up to date install with testing commented out.

[rocketmouse@archlinux virtualbox-bin]$ sudo dkms install vboxhost/5.2.0 -k 4.14.0-2-ARCH

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area...
make -j2 KERNELRELEASE=4.14.0-2-ARCH -C /usr/lib/modules/4.14.0-2-ARCH/build M=/var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.2.0/build..........(bad exit status: 2)
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.14.0-2-ARCH (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.2.0/build/make.log for more information.

[rocketmouse@archlinux virtualbox-bin]$ grep "testing]" -A3 /etc/pacman.conf
#[testing]
#SigLevel = PackageRequired
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

--
#[community-testing]
#SigLevel = PackageRequired
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

--
#[multilib-testing]
#SigLevel = PackageRequired
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[rocketmouse@archlinux virtualbox-bin]$ grep -i error /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.2.0/build/make.log
/var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.2.0/build/vboxnetflt/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c:741:24: error: ‘SKB_GSO_UDP’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘SKB_GSO_ESP’?
/var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.2.0/build/vboxnetflt/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c:1276:53: error: ‘SKB_GSO_UDP’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘SKB_GSO_ESP’?
/var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.2.0/build/vboxnetflt/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c:1526:47: error: ‘SKB_GSO_UDP’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘SKB_GSO_ESP’?
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:314: /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.2.0/build/vboxnetflt/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:573: /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.2.0/build/vboxnetflt] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:1503: _module_/var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.2.0/build] Error 2

Ralf, I had another DKMS issue, which should be fixed The one you are mentioning is different.

I'm trying to replicate your issue.

Pacman -S linux-header gives:

[snip]
(1/3) Install DKMS modules
==> dkms install nvidia/387.22 -k 4.13.11-1-ARCH
==> dkms install vboxhost/5.2.0 -k 4.13.11-1-ARCH
(2/3) Updating linux initcpios
[snip]
(no errors)

asp checkout virtualbox <--- I don't maintain this version.(OSE/community)


The dkms module should be vboxhost rather than virtualbox you seem to have

and should look something like this

rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov 14 21:25 source -> /usr/src/vboxhost-5.2.0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 14 21:26 4.13.11-1-ARCH

$ sudo rm -Ir /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/bin/
rm: remove 1 argument recursively? y
$ sudo rm -Ir /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/bin/
rm: remove 1 argument recursively? y
rm: cannot remove '/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/bin/': No such file or directory
$ sudo pacman -S linux{,-docs,-headers}
[snip]
$ ls -hAl /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/bin/
total 4.0K
drwxr-xr-x 3 rocketmouse rocketmouse 4.0K Nov 14 09:34 build
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov 14 09:34 source -> /usr/src/virtualbox-bin

Remember, the flaw doesn't affect building the modules, they are located in /lib/modules/*/kernel/misc/.
I'm short in time, so I only did a short test:

$ asp update
[snip]
$ asp checkout virtualbox
Cloning into '/tmp/virtualbox'...
done.
$ grep VER virtualbox/trunk/virtualbox-host-dkms.conf
PACKAGE_VERSION=@VERSION@_OSE
$ grep VER /usr/src/virtualbox-bin/dkms.conf
PACKAGE_VERSION=
$ nano /usr/src/virtualbox-bin/dkms.conf
$ grep VER /usr/src/virtualbox-bin/dkms.conf
PACKAGE_VERSION=5.2.0
$ sudo pacman -S linux{,-docs,-headers}
[snip]
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/3) Install DKMS modules
==> dkms install vboxhost/5.2.0 -k 4.13.12-1-ARCH
==> dkms install virtualbox/bin -k 4.13.12-1-ARCH
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.13.12-1-ARCH (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/bin/build/make.log for more information.
[snip]

# pacman -S linux linux-headers
[snip]
Packages (2) linux-4.13.12-1 linux-headers-4.13.12-1
[snip]
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/3) Install DKMS modules
==> dkms install vboxhost/5.2.0 -k 4.13.12-1-ARCH
==> dkms install virtualbox/bin -k 4.13.12-1-ARCH
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
Error! Bad conf file.
File: /usr/src/virtualbox-bin/dkms.conf
does not represent a valid dkms.conf file.
[snip]
$ pacman -Q virtualbox-bin
virtualbox-bin 5.2.0-1

Note, on upgrade from 5.1.28 to 5.2, dkms does not handle previous module unload as all upgrades between 5.1.2X have and following upgrade there is module and virtualbox version mismatch. Further, headless Windows clients accessed remotely can not receive keyboard or mouse input (regadless of host-key use) as there is an evident incompatibility between the 5.1.2X guest additions and the new 5.2 additions. Reported with Oracle ticket/17259. Just be aware after host upgrade to 5.2, if you have remote clients accessing headless windows guests, there is a high likelihood they will not be able to access the guest until guest additions are manually updated to 5.2 on the host machine (remote clients can no longer login and update guest additions as normal)