VBoxGuestAdditions fail to build

[ThatOneProgrammerGuy]

I had a kernel update today on a Linux guest (update was to kernel 4.4.0-143 on a Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS install). During the re-install of the guest additions I get the message that building failed and I should check out vboxadd-setup.log for more info. I do so, and am greeted right at the top of the file with a message saying Kernel configuration is invalid, and that either include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf is missing. Now note that I have limited knowledge of reading this file, but I presume it is just part of a shell command that is being logged and that is not the error at hand. I'll add a screenshot with relevant information for that error message to prove that I have all the pre-requisits to solve that error that I've found in other bug reports.

Further down the file I find a couple of build errors, having to do mostly with improper arguments being passed to (probably) kernel header functions?

I honestly don't know if this is a duplicate of a different issue, as my searches yielded no usable information.

[ThatOneProgrammerGuy]

I've attached the complete vboxadd-setup.log.

[ThatOneProgrammerGuy]

I forgot to add that I was triggered to this because of a messagebox that popped up while I started the Linux guest with the same message as for example in ticket #17356: VBoxClient: VBoxClient (seamless): failed to start. Stage: Setting guest IRQ filter mask Error: VERR_INTERNAL_ERROR. The mentioned solution there was to remove any pre-build guest additions from my distro, but I don't have any pre-built guest additions provided by Ubuntu installed on my guest. I've had issues with them before and have removed them over a year ago.

[Socratis]

This sounds like a duplicate of #18315 and like something that should be fixed with builds r128999 and later, for both 5.2.27 and 6.0.5.

See ​https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=91814

[janitor]

#18315