I just did an upgrade from Y to Z with the virtualbox packages installed and observed the same behavior as with the nvidia DKMS modules.
Setting up virtualbox-dkms (5.1.18-dfsg-1build1) ...^M Loading new virtualbox-5.1.18 DKMS files...^M Building for 4.8.0-46-generic^M Building initial module for 4.8.0-46-generic^M Done.^M ^M vboxdrv:^M Running module version sanity check.^M - Original module^M - No original module exists within this kernel^M - Installation^M - Installing to /lib/modules/4.8.0-46-generic/updates/dkms/^M ^M vboxnetadp.ko:^M Running module version sanity check.^M - Original module^M - No original module exists within this kernel^M - Installation^M - Installing to /lib/modules/4.8.0-46-generic/updates/dkms/^M ^M vboxnetflt.ko:^M Running module version sanity check.^M - Original module^M - No original module exists within this kernel^M - Installation^M - Installing to /lib/modules/4.8.0-46-generic/updates/dkms/^M ^M vboxpci.ko:^M Running module version sanity check.^M - Original module^M - No original module exists within this kernel^M - Installation^M - Installing to /lib/modules/4.8.0-46-generic/updates/dkms/^M ^M depmod...^M ^M DKMS: install completed.^M The modules were only built for the 4.8 kernel. bdmurray@clean-yakkety-amd64:~$ ls /lib/modules/4.10.0-19-generic/ build kernel modules.alias.bin modules.builtin.bin modules.dep.bin modules.order modules.symbols vdso initrd modules.alias modules.builtin modules.dep modules.devname modules.softdep modules.symbols.bin bdmurray@clean-yakkety-amd64:~$ ls /lib/modules/4.8.0-46-generic/updates/dkms/ vboxdrv.ko vboxnetadp.ko vboxnetflt.ko vboxpci.ko -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1681566 Title: nvidia-375 DKMS module not recompiled on upgrade to 17.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-375/+bug/1681566/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
