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

Michael Meskes meskes at debian.org
Mon Jan 25 09:43:38 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 09:15:27AM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> I don't understand: the kernel version *did* change.  VirtualBox
> worked when I booted 2.6.31-1-amd64 and did not work when I booted
> 2.6.32-trunk-amd64.  Those are different kernel versions.
> 
> Why isn't the module being rebuilt?

I would bet that the modules were build for 2.6.32, but between building of the
modules and you trying to use the modules the kernel package was updated yet
again. And with this update not changing version numbers but changing ABI the
modules do not work anymore.

Michael

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