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dm-writeboost-dkms 2.2.6-1~16.04.2: dm-writeboost kernel module failed to build

Bug #1761191 reported by roshan on 2018-04-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1760876: DKMS driver builds fail with: Cannot use CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	dm-writeboost (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

In other modules also the problem seems to be due to an implicit declaration of a function and unknown member access.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: dm-writeboost-dkms 2.2.6-1~16.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-37.42~16.04.1-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-37-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
Architecture: amd64
DKMSKernelVersion: 4.15.0-13-generic
Date: Wed Apr 4 18:40:33 2018
DuplicateSignature: dkms:dm-writeboost-dkms:2.2.6-1~16.04.2:/var/lib/dkms/dm-writeboost/2.2.6/build/dm-writeboost-target.c:135:5: error: ‘struct bio’ has no member named ‘bi_bdev’
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-03-12 (388 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
PackageArchitecture: all
PackageVersion: 2.2.6-1~16.04.2
RelatedPackageVersions:
dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.4
apt 1.2.26
SourcePackage: dm-writeboost
Title: dm-writeboost-dkms 2.2.6-1~16.04.2: dm-writeboost kernel module failed to build
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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roshan (roshande) wrote on 2018-04-04:

DKMSBuildLog.txt Edit (3.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (136.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2018-04-04

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2018-04-06:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1760876, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.