[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#465597: virtualbox-ose: misleading error message (device /dev/vboxdrv ...)

[Andrew Vaughan]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 1.5.4-dfsg-4
Severity: normal

Hi

I just spent some time fiddling with virtualbox-ose on Lenny.

$ VirtualBox
WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
         Please install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your
         kernel and load the module named vboxdrv into your system.

         You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.

$ sudo modprobe vboxdrv
FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.

The virtualbox-ose-modules-* packages ship the virtualbox-ose module.

(This is also the first time I've needed to manually load a module in more
than 2 years.  It's not obvious to me why this one isn't autoloaded.)

Secondly you might want to add a note about needing to add users to the
vboxusers group to README.debian.

Thanks for you work in Debian.

Andrew V.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.105            add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.19           Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                   2.7-6            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.3-20080116-1 GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.0.2-4          A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.14.5-2         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libidl0                 0.8.9-0.1        library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii  libqt3-mt               3:3.3.7-9        Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsdl1.2debian         1.2.13-1         Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6              4.3-20080116-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxalan110             1.10-3.1         Provides XSLT support for applicat
ii  libxcursor1             1:1.1.9-1        X cursor management library
ii  libxerces27             2.7.0-5          validating XML parser library for
ii  libxext6                1:1.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.5-3        X11 toolkit intrinsics library

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends:
ii  virtualbox-ose-modu 2.6.22+1.5.2-dfsg2-9 PC virtualization solution modules
ii  virtualbox-ose-modu 2.6.22+1.5.2-dfsg2-9 PC virtualization solution modules

-- debconf information:
* virtualbox-ose/upstream_version_change: true