[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#658348: Bug#658348: virtualbox: fails to install in Sid on amd64 : insserv rejected the script header

[Sébastien Kalt]

Hi,

2012/2/2 Michael Meskes <meskes at debian.org>

> > $ aptitude install virtualbox
> > Les NOUVEAUX paquets suivants vont être installés :
> >   virtualbox
>
> Please set your language environment to C before running an application if
> you
> want to paste its output to a bug report. There may be some important
> information in it that people simply miss because the don't speak French.
>
Ok, sorry, I knew I shouldn't send something in French, but I didn't find
how to make my system speak English.


>
> > insserv: script virtualbox: service vboxdrv already provided!
> > insserv: exiting now!
>
> This seems to say that you have two initscripts providing service vboxdrv.
> Could it be that you have another version installed or leftover files e.g.
> f
> rom Oracle's version.
>
I thought to have purged older virtualbox packages, but it seems I didn't.

Virtualbox installs now without errors (and in English) :

$ aptitude install virtualbox
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  virtualbox
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-qt virtualbox-source
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/15.7 MB of archives. After unpacking 45.9 MB will be used.
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox.
(Reading database ... 330501 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking virtualbox (from .../virtualbox_4.1.8-dfsg-1_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up virtualbox (4.1.8-dfsg-1) ...
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules.
Starting VirtualBox kernel modulesNo suitable module for running kernel
found ... failed!
 failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed.
Processing triggers for python-central ...

Sorry for filling a bug that wasn't one.

Sebastien
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