[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#563246: Bug#563246: virtualbox-ose: Virtual Machines no longer start after apt-get upgrade

[Clayton]

On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 16:07:15 +0100
Michael Meskes <meskes at debian.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 07:15:01PM +0800, clayton wrote:
> > After the latest update, when I start a Virtual Machine I get the 
> > following error in a popup:
> > ...
> > Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and execute
> > 'modprobe vboxdrv' as root."
> > 
> > If I follow this advice, it does not fix the problem, I just get
> > the 
> 
> Is the module build? What happens if you try modprobing it, any
> error? Also dmesg output might be helpful.
>
> > same errors again. I also tried to create my own vboxdrv using
> > 
> > "m-a a-i virtualbox-ose"
> > 
> > and that failed with build errors.
> 
> Giving us the build errors might be helpful too. It's rather
> difficult to judge what's going without detail information. Could it
> by that you don't have the necessary packages installed? "m-a
> prepare" might help.

This problem spontaneously disappeared and now virtualbox works,
without any new virtualbox packages. So I would say there seems to have
been something wrong with the environment that went away with one of my
subsequent daily apt-get upgrades.

Clayton