Dear Gianfranco, thank you very much for your fix indeed. It works like a charm on my siduction box. You really saved my a... . Best wishes jk
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 08:52:59 +0000 (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org> wrote: > Hello, > > > >VMMR0.r0 has been built (presumably due to the recent binutils upgrades in unstable) with the new PLT32 relocation type, which the virtualbox ELF relocation >code cannot handle at the moment. Having a quick glance at .text and .rela.text of VMMR0.r0, it seems to me that PC32 and PLT32 can be handled identically, >similar to what commit b21ebf2fb4cd of the Linux kernel did? > > > I really liked the analysis, the linux commit and the binutils stuff, I crafted a patch based on this comment, and uploaded in unstable > > If anybody wants to test the "fix", please grab the deb files from there > http://debomatic-amd64.debian.net/distribution#unstable/virtualbox/5.2.14-dfsg-2/buildlog > > > or wait some hours for the package to appear on unstable repositories/mirrors. > > I'm not sure if this causes regressions or whatever else, the assumption "they might behave in the same way" might not apply as it did in the kernel, > even if my basic tests confirmed the VM to start. > > Use at your own risk, like everything that comes from unstable, the urgency is set to low, so I presume we will have 10 days of people testing this before > going in buster. > > thanks you all, I also submitted the patch to upstream mail list and irc for review > > G. > >
