I'm seeing the same issue on debconf 1.5.41 and dkms 2.2.0.2-1, with some variation in the versions and line numbers involved: Errors appear after "Removing linux-image-2.6.39-2-amd64 virtualbox is version 4.1.2, and the lines reporting the error are 3 9 11 18 19 26 27 34 35 42 44