Bug#764901: linux-image-3.16-2-amd64: Suspend results in shutdown

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Subject	Bug#764901: linux-image-3.16-2-amd64: Suspend results in shutdown
Date	Fri, 07 Jan 2022 12:40:01 +0100
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On Friday, 7 January 2022 09:38:46 CET Dominique Dumont wrote:
> Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.16.0-6-amd64 (x86_64)
> Consult /var/lib/dkms/open-vm-tools/2012.05.21/build/make.log for more
> information.
> ...
> Turns out that the compilation failure happens because dkms is trying to
> compile the Debian 7 version of open-vm-tools (2012.05.21) with Debian 8
> kernel (3.16.0-6).

It's not uncommon that old dkms packages are not compatible with newer 
kernels. I only have experience with non-packaged dkms modules, but the 
problem is the same. 

Out of Tree modules always have to play catch-up because they can't know how 
the kernel will change in the future and thus they can't know in advance how 
their code should be adapted.
The newer version works with Debian 8, but will highly likely fail with Debian 
9 ... until you update open-vm-tools to a later version which does support 
kernel 4.9. 

> I don't know if there's a bug with dkms or open-vm-tools which trigger a
> compilation of old open-vm-tools with newer kernel

As Ben mentioned in msg #10:
"That is a bug in open-vm-tools, not the kernel."

You went to all that trouble to find a 7+ year old bug, with a title that 
doesn't convey a link with dkms compilation issue, unarchive the bug and 
respond to that, but you missed the (1st) response of a kernel maintainer?

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Bug#764901: linux-image-3.16-2-amd64: Suspend results in shutdown Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2022-01-07 09:50 +0100
  Bug#764901: linux-image-3.16-2-amd64: Suspend results in shutdown Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2022-01-07 12:40 +0100
    Bug#764901: linux-image-3.16-2-amd64: Suspend results in shutdown Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2022-01-07 14:50 +0100

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