Hello all, Since I upgraded to Kubuntu utopic I have been unable to use Virtualbox. It was all working fine prior to the upgrade. I have tried everything so need some assistance. I have unistalled and reinstalled but the problem persists. After the reinstall using apt this is the last part of the install dialogue: Setting up virtualbox (4.3.18-dfsg-1) ... insserv: script virtualbox: service vboxdrv already provided! insserv: exiting now! update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header dpkg: error processing package virtualbox (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox-dkms: virtualbox-dkms depends on virtualbox (>= 4.3.18-dfsg-1); however: Package virtualbox is not configured yet. Package virtualbox-4.1 which provides virtualbox is not installed. dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-dkms (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox-qt: virtualbox-qt depends on virtualbox (= 4.3.18-dfsg-1); however: Package virtualbox is not configured yet. Package virtualbox-4.1 which provides virtualbox is not installed. dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-qt (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. Errors were encountered while processing: virtualbox virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-qt E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I can't understand why it is looking for 4.1 - I have been using 4.3 and it is installing 4.3? Any help appreciated. Bob
2014-11-05 12:43 GMT+01:00 Bob <forums@wtaustralia.com>:
I can't understand why it is looking for 4.1 - I have been using 4.3 and it is installing 4.3? Any help appreciated.
You are speaking about an alpha version just released, so it isn't a big surprise finding some misfunctions... I would just suggest to signal it as a bug to the kubuntu (or ubuntu?) tracking system, and wait for it to be solved... -- Mick
I had this problem too. Being lazy, I just installed the .deb from Oracle's site, which works fine.
Thanks for the response.
I had this problem too. Being lazy, I just installed the .deb from Oracle's site, which works fine.
I tried that but still get: Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the kernel module by executing '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup' as root. If it is available in your distribution, you should install the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary. Running this as root makes no difference. If I run dkms I get : bob@Comp-NC:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: virtualbox-dkms is broken or not fully installed but dkms is installed and is the latest version :-( I also re-installed the matching extensions package. Bob
That's stumped me, the most I can suggest is reboot and try another time. You might find a solution on askubuntu.com or the Ubuntu forums if no one else responds. On 6 Nov 2014 15:22, "Bob" <forums@wtaustralia.com> wrote:
Thanks for the response.
I had this problem too. Being lazy, I just installed the .deb from Oracle's site, which works fine.
I tried that but still get:
Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the kernel module by executing
'/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'
as root. If it is available in your distribution, you should install the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.
Running this as root makes no difference.
If I run dkms I get :
bob@Comp-NC:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: virtualbox-dkms is broken or not fully installed
but dkms is installed and is the latest version :-( I also re-installed the matching extensions package.
Bob
Note the packaging from Oracle's site is rather different (and probably incompatible), as everything is included in one package. You are probably better of purging all virtualbox-* packages before moving from one to the other. dpkg --purge virtualbox virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-qt (and any others I didn't include) On 6 November 2014 15:22, Bob <forums@wtaustralia.com> wrote:
bob@Comp-NC:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: virtualbox-dkms is broken or not fully installed
Wrong command. Assuming you want to install the version with your OS (distributed as separate packages), You wanted: dpkg --configure virtualbox-dkms dpkg-reconfigure is intended to re-ask debconf questions, not to fix broken packages. Or better yet: dpkg --configure --pending Will try to automatically configure all pending packages. -- Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>
Thanks Brian,
dpkg --configure --pending
Will try to automatically configure all pending packages.
Trying this resulted in: Setting up virtualbox (4.3.18-dfsg-1) ... insserv: script virtualbox: service vboxdrv already provided! insserv: exiting now! update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header dpkg: error processing package virtualbox (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox-dkms: virtualbox-dkms depends on virtualbox (>= 4.3.18-dfsg-1); however: Package virtualbox is not configured yet. Package virtualbox-4.1 which provides virtualbox is not installed. dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-dkms (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox-qt: virtualbox-qt depends on virtualbox (= 4.3.18-dfsg-1); however: Package virtualbox is not configured yet. Package virtualbox-4.1 which provides virtualbox is not installed. dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-qt (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: virtualbox virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-qt so it looks like I will need to purge everything as you said and reinstall Bob
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