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

[Mike]

On 1/12/10 4:40 AM, Michael Meskes wrote:
> 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?
>
>    

Hmmm, I thought I submitted only after I had explicitly verified their 
existence after another purge. Tried it again just now and no problems 
whatsoever. I'm blaming it on old cruft or me, whatever the original 
cause was it works perfectly now.

Thanks,

-Mike