[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#467223: virtualbox-ose: Fails to upgrade from 1.5.4-dfsg-5

[Nelson A. de Oliveira]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 1.5.4-dfsg-5
Severity: important

Hi!

virtualbox is failing to upgrade here:

(...)
Preparing to replace virtualbox-ose 1.5.4-dfsg-5 (using .../virtualbox-ose_1.5.6-dfsg-1_i386.deb) ...
Shutting down VirtualBox host networking ...done.
invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox-ose, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
Shutting down VirtualBox host networking ...done.
invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox-ose, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox-ose_1.5.6-dfsg-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting VirtualBox host networking ...fail!
invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox-ose, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox-ose_1.5.6-dfsg-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
dpkg: error processing virtualbox-ose (--configure):
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
 reinstall it before attempting configuration.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 virtualbox-ose

Thank you!

Best regards,
Nelson

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-naoliv1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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                   2.7-8            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.3-20080219-1 GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.0.2-4          A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.15.5-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libidl0                 0.8.9-0.1        library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii  libqt3-mt               3:3.3.8b-4       Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsdl1.2debian         1.2.13-2         Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6              4.3-20080219-1   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:
pn  virtualbox-ose-modules        <none>     (no description available)

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