[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#516242: Bug#516242: virtualbox-ose: Init script fails

[Michael Meskes]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 01:54:17AM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> John Goerzen wrote:
> > When the init script runs at install time, or manually:
> > 
> > # /etc/init.d/virtualbox-ose start
> > Starting VirtualBox kernel module...failed.
> 
> Have a look into /etc/default/virtualbox-ose
> I think the best way would be to ask the admin viw debconf here, or enable it by
> default. I felt about that problem, too.

No, the problem here is that the script fails if the module is not loaded.
There is a reason to not load it by default, but the script should work if it
is not loaded even if it does nothing. 

Michael
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