[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#500702: Bug#500702: [virtualbox-ose]

[Michael Meskes]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:11:59PM -0500, Jordi Burguet Castell wrote:
> module-assistant doesn't work for me (also,
> it is not listed as a dependency)

No, but as recommendation. After all you can build the modules with other tools as well.

> but when I first installed virtualbox-ose I didn't have to do anything
> like that, and also it struck me as odd that I should become root and
> generate the module myself (I couldn't see any info on this in the

Are you sure sid/unstable is the right distribution for you? No offense
intended, but this is not exactly uncommon.

> Apart from this, when I install module-assistant and
> virtualbox-ose-source, and run "module-assistant auto-install
> virtualbox-ose", it seems to work but afterwards I still have the same
> problem ("The version of the VirtualBox kernel modules and the version
> of VirtualBox application are not matching [...]").
> 
> Either there is a problem or maybe I just don't understand what I am
> doing wrong.

You have to reload te module. 

Michael
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