[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#563073: Bug#563073: (no subject)

Michael Meskes meskes at debian.org
Tue Jan 12 11:40:11 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 01:49:22PM -0700, Mike wrote:
> I noticed the same problem with dkms. It seems that there is
> something leaving behind kernel modules every time it updates. I
> removed/purged virtualbox-ose-dkms and re-installed only to find
> this in dmesg:
> 
> vboxnetadp: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
> 
> I purged again, went and looked in:
> 
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-trunk-amd64/updates/dkms
> 
> Only to find vboxnetadp.ko and vboxnetflt.ko were still sitting in
> there even though the package was purged and no kernel modules
> should have existed on the disk. Removing those by hand and

Could you try removing and re-installing it again? This seems to work
flawlessly on my system. Maybe some old leftover stuff?

Michael
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