Moving the discussion over from my duplicate report #2161081, hoping that someone will comment and act upon this issue:
Ubuntu has a long history of releasing virtualbox packages with incompatible kernels (in particular the HWE kernel in many cases). This goes back to at least 18.04 LTS (c.f. #1856492) and keeps happening over and over and over again. Most recently about 3 months ago with #2136499. Since this is a frequently occurring regression I strongly suggest to implement some additional tests that prevent HWE kernels to be released with incompatible virtualbox versions in the LTS release. *Please* catch and fix this *before release of new HWE kernels* because the recurring breakage and required workarounds till a fixed package is released are a major nuisance, especially when they occur on the LTS branch which many users choose for better stability. Seeing the report date of *this* issue (#2160033) I find the problem even more aggravating. This is a known issue for 10 days now and yet *today* I received the incompatible 7.0.0-28 HWE kernel. It is bad enough that Ubuntu breaks systems (as in the computer won't boot anymore) on a regular basis but once someone reports this and the issue is known, at least pull the broken package from release until the problem is fixed. *Some* examples for similar problems where virtualbox and linux-hwe broke each other: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1292118 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1674819 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1729568 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1736116 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1796543 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1835576 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1847662 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-hwe/+bug/1866518 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1901904 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1943341 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1950103 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/2073983 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/2136499 How often does this need to happen for someone to create a simple test that installs linux-hwe *and* virtual-box and only admits either package to be released if the installation terminates successfully? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2160033 Title: virtualbox-dkms fails to build with kernel 7.0 HWE To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/2160033/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
