[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#485402: VirtualBox: Driver version mismatch

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Mon, 09 Jun 2008, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > The VirtualBox support driver which is running is from a different
> > version of VirtualBox. You can correct this by stopping all running
> > instances of VirtualBox and reinstalling the software..
> 
> as the message says, rebuild virtualbox-ose-source (e.g. with m-a a-i
> virtualbox-ose).

That's not very constructive... a good answer would have been:
- either patch the error message above to give the Debian specific
  instruction
- or ask for a bin-nmu of linux-modules-extra-2.6 (if that source
  package is bin-nmuable) in order to bring modules back into sync
  with the current virtualbox version

I'm not reopening the bug but you should really consider one of the two
above actions. I've also been bitten by this bug and it's not really
obvious to the random user how they could be out of sync.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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