[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#649586: virtualbox: Upgrade failed due to non-purged config: "service vboxdrv, already provided"

[Philippe Teuwen]

Package: virtualbox
Version: 4.1.6-dfsg-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Upgrade from virtualbox-4.0 to virtualbox package (with 4.1.6 dependency
atm) failed

  apt-get install -t unstable virtualbox
  ...
  Setting up virtualbox (4.1.6-dfsg-2) ...
  insserv: script virtualbox: service vboxdrv already provided!
  insserv: exiting now!
  update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header

To solve the issue I had to purge config of virtualbox-4.0:
  dpkg -P virtualbox-4.0

Best regards
Phil

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virtualbox depends on:
ii  adduser          3.113           
ii  libc6            2.13-21         
ii  libcurl3         7.21.7-3        
ii  libgcc1          1:4.6.1-15      
ii  libpython2.7     2.7.2-5         
ii  libsdl1.2debian  1.2.14-6.4      
ii  libssl1.0.0      1.0.0e-2        
ii  libstdc++6       4.6.1-15        
ii  libvncserver0    0.9.8.2-1       
ii  libx11-6         2:1.4.4-2       
ii  libxcursor1      1:1.1.12-1      
ii  libxext6         2:1.3.0-3       
ii  libxml2          2.7.8.dfsg-5    
ii  libxmu6          2:1.1.0-3       
ii  libxt6           1:1.1.1-2       
ii  python           2.7.2-9         
ii  python-central   0.6.17          
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3

Versions of packages virtualbox recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  7.11-6      
ii  libqt4-opengl             4:4.7.3-5   
ii  libqtcore4                4:4.7.3-5   
ii  libqtgui4                 4:4.7.3-5   
ii  virtualbox-dkms           4.1.6-dfsg-2
ii  virtualbox-qt             4.1.6-dfsg-2

Versions of packages virtualbox suggests:
pn  vde2                            2.2.3-3+b1
pn  virtualbox-guest-additions-iso  <none>    

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