[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#468419: Bug#468419: Bug#468419: Bug#468419:

Michael Meskes meskes at debian.org
Sun Mar 9 17:55:53 UTC 2008


clone 468419 -1
reopen -1
retitle -1 initscript fails if tun module is missing
thanks

> >From /etc/init.d/virtualbox-ose:
> 
>     # Fail if we don't have the kernel tun device
>     # Make sure that the tun module is loaded (Ubuntu 7.10 needs this)
>     modprobe tun > /dev/null 2>&1
>     if ! cat /proc/misc 2>/dev/null | grep tun > /dev/null
>     then
>       fail_msg
>       return 1
>     fi
> 
> 
> I don't have tun compiled on this Kernel.
> Can this be the cause to have this fail? (returning 1 will cause
> postinst to fail, right?)

Yes, that's probably the reason. The script tries to set up things
before actually parsing the config file. You should be able to work around the problem
by just removing /etc/vbox/interfaces. 

Cloned and re-opened.

Thanks for the additional infos.

Michael
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