id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host 8716,Cannot recompile VirtualBox kernel module with Debian precompiled kernel 2.6.38-2-686,jors,,"On Debian Squeeze, when installing and using precompiled kernel 2.6.38-2-686, the VirtualBox kernel module fails to recompile: {{{ mini:/home/jors# uname -r 2.6.38-2-686 mini:/home/jors# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules:. Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules:. Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS: Failed, trying without DKMS ... failed! Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules: Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong ... failed! mini:/home/jors# }}} The vbox-install.log says the following: {{{ mini:/home/jors# cat /var/log/vbox-install.log Makefile:178: *** Error: /usr/src/linux (version 2.6.38) does not match the current kernel (version 2.6.38-2-686). Alto. mini:/home/jors# }}} When showing installed precompiled kernel headers information with dpkg, it seems like some versioning info is wrong. First column version info matches current running kernel, but not second column version info, as you can see here: {{{ mini:/home/jors# dpkg -l linux-headers-2.6.38-2-686 Deseado=Desconocido/Instalar/Eliminar/Purgar/Retener | Estado=No/Instalado/Config-files/Desempaquetado/Medio-conf/Medio-inst/espera-disparo/pendiente-disparo |/ Err?=(ninguno)/Requiere-reinst (Estado,Err: mayúsc.=malo) ||/ Nombre Versión Descripción +++-=============================-=============================-========================================================================== ii linux-headers-2.6.38-2-686 2.6.38-3 Header files for Linux 2.6.38-2-686 mini:/home/jors# }}} Could this last tip be the problem's root? Any workaround to bypass this temporally?",defect,closed,host support,VirtualBox 4.0.4,fixed,vboxdrv,,Linux,Linux