[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#555127: Bug#555127: virtualbox-ose-guest-utils: Unclear how to get modules for newer kernel versions

Michael Meskes meskes at debian.org
Sat Nov 14 11:35:09 UTC 2009


tag 555127 unreproducible
tag 555127 moreinfo

thanks

> run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms 2.6.31-1-amd64 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-1-amd64

This should rebuild your vbox modules and it does for me.

> Installing 2.6.31 didn't seem to trigger a DKMS build of the virtualbox
> modules. If it was not intended to, then please consider this a request
> to make it so. :)

Are you sure your initial virtualbox-ose-source installation did correctly
build the modules? What does dkms status tell you?

Michael
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