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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0006000 | Kali Linux | General Bug | public | 2020-01-16 05:10 | 2020-01-17 15:33 |
Reporter | ioscanner | Assigned To | rhertzog | ||
Priority | high | Severity | major | Reproducibility | have not tried |
Status | closed | Resolution | not fixable | ||
Product Version | 2019.4 | ||||
Summary | 0006000: After the latest update it seems to have broken the kernel | ||||
Description | I did the latest update and then VMware attempted to rebuild the VMware modules. It errors now and can't compete: /tmp/modconfig-0t5cgZ/vmnet-only/userif.c:577:17: error: ‘skb_frag_t’ {aka ‘const struct bio_vec’} has no member named ‘size’ | ||||
Steps To Reproduce | I did see the bug with mkinitramfs that was also an issue after the upgrade. I patched and reran, but it didn't allow VMware to build its kernel modules. | ||||
So it just seems to be the 5.4 kernel update. If I use the 5.3 kernel before the update vmware still works just fine. It seems the issue the the: linux-image-5.4.0-kali2-amd64 or the headers. Not sure what changed. |
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What do you mean with "VMware attempted to rebuild the VMware modules"? VMware support is provided by the packages open-vm-tools and open-vm-dkms and the modules in that package do build correctly with Linux 5.4 AFAIK. Have you manually installed something else? |
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Sorry, I was not clear. I have VMware workstation Pro 15 installed to run a few Windows hosts and different versions of tools needed. VMware needs to load its kernel modules to support the guest VMs. After I upgraded it could no longer build the vmnet modules needed to enable ethernet for the guest VMs. I rebooted and used the 5.3 kernel and the issue is not present. |
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Ah, OK, that makes it clearer but I'm afraid that we are not in a position to fix this, you have to take this up with VMWare. Those modules are not shipped by Kali. |
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Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2020-01-16 05:10 | ioscanner | New Issue | |
2020-01-17 04:57 | ioscanner | Note Added: 0011931 | |
2020-01-17 14:44 | rhertzog | Note Added: 0011932 | |
2020-01-17 15:21 | ioscanner | Note Added: 0011933 | |
2020-01-17 15:33 | rhertzog | Assigned To | => rhertzog |
2020-01-17 15:33 | rhertzog | Status | new => closed |
2020-01-17 15:33 | rhertzog | Resolution | open => not fixable |
2020-01-17 15:33 | rhertzog | Note Added: 0011934 |