xtables-addons-dkms 1.47.1-1: xtables-addons kernel module failed to build

dont know

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

dimanche 5 mai 2013, 14:18:42 (UTC+0200)
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-19-generic'
  CC [M] /usr/src/xtables-addons-1.47.1/compat_xtables.o
  CC [M] /usr/src/xtables-addons-1.47.1/xt_CHAOS.o
  CC [M] /usr/src/xtables-addons-1.47.1/xt_DELUDE.o
  CC [M] /usr/src/xtables-addons-1.47.1/xt_DHCPMAC.o
  CC [M] /usr/src/xtables-addons-1.47.1/xt_DNETMAP.o
/usr/src/xtables-addons-1.47.1/xt_DNETMAP.c:30:39: fatal error: net/netfilter/nf_nat_rule.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [/usr/src/xtables-addons-1.47.1/xt_DNETMAP.o] Error 1
make: *** [_module_/usr/src/xtables-addons-1.47.1] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-19-generic'

Version 1.47.1 does not seem to be compatible to kernel 3.8.0 or higher due to API changes.
Since kernel 3.8.0 a xtables-addon version of at least 2.1 is required!
See xtables-addons changelog: http://sourceforge.net/p/xtables-addons/xtables-addons/ci/v2.1/tree/doc/changelog.txt

Recent revisions:
27. By Dmitry Smirnov <email address hidden> on 2013-06-02
    * New upstream version [March 2013].
      + compatible with kernels 3.7+ (Closes: #710722).

Fix available by installing new version. Please speed up the packaging of it for raring and other if needed.

Fetch:
bzr branch lp:ubuntu/xtables-addons

Build:
cd xtables-addons
dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc
cd ..

Install:
sudo dpkg -i xtables-addons-common_2.2-1_amd64.deb xtables-addons-dkms_2.2-1_all.deb

Thanks for the info, jth. It is crazy for the repos associated with kernels 3.8.0 and above to still show xtables 1.47.1 as the latest version and available, when the package install scripts are explicitly written to fail their kernel version tests. Version 2.2 or above is the only xtables-addons which is compatible with these later kernels.

The bzr source worked for me on two different systems, one with i386 kernels low-latency and generic, the other running a custom non-pae i386 kernel.

However, I encountered a couple of issues along the way:

1. the common and dkms debs will not install and subsequently must be removed if the system does not already have the iptables-dev and dh-autoreconf packages installed. These ought to be specified in the deb pre-requisites.

2. the debs did not download and build the xt_geoip csv files automatically, so I had to run the command:
        sudo /usr/lib/xtables-addons/xt_geoip_dl

3. then the command:
        sudo /usr/lib/xtables-addons/xt_geoip_build -D /usr/share/xt_geoip *.csv
    .. failed until I set up my perl5 environment and installed the CPAN module Text::CSV_XS

4. finally, the build command failed until I created the target directory.