[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#564151: virtualbox-ose: modprobe vboxdrv --> FATAL: Error inserting vboxdrv

[Julien Cristau]

On Thu, Jan  7, 2010 at 19:10:17 -0500, Daryl Styrk wrote:

> Package: virtualbox-ose
> Version: 3.1.2-dfsg-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> 
> After a safe-upgrade today virtualbox required a 'modprobe vboxdrv'
> which results in the following FATAL error. 
> 
> FATAL: Error inserting vboxdrv
> (/lib/modules/2.6.32-trunk-686/updates/dkms/vboxdrv.ko): Invalid module
> format
> 
Sounds like your kernel was upgraded but you didn't rebuild the modules.
Not a bug in that case, I think (the kernel ABI in sid at the moment is
known to be unstable).

Cheers,
Julien