I investigated the kernel panic caused by this DKMS failure and found a deeper systemd-level fault.
When DKMS fails, initramfs is never generated, but systemd's 55-initrd.install silently exits 0 instead of failing loudly — so GRUB creates an unbootable boot entry with zero warning. Full analysis and proposed fix filed separately: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/2141741 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2136499 Title: virtualbox-dkms FTBFS in Noble with the linux-6.17 kernel To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/2136499/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
