[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#693731: virtualbox: Fails to install if virtualbox-4.2 recently removed.

[David Smith]

Package: virtualbox
Version: 4.1.18-dfsg-1.1
Severity: important

Hello,

I had virtualbox-4.2 installed and then I did an apt-get remove it..
Rebooted the PC.
Then I tried to install virtualbox from Debian repos.

The installation failed as follows:

Miho:/home/david# apt-get install virtualbox-dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
virtualbox-dkms is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

Setting up virtualbox (4.1.18-dfsg-1.1) ...
insserv: script virtualbox: service vboxdrv already provided!
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing virtualbox (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox-qt:
 virtualbox-qt depends on virtualbox (= 4.1.18-dfsg-1.1); however:
  Package virtualbox is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing virtualbox-qt (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox-dkms:
 virtualbox-dkms depends on virtualbox (>= 4.1.18-dfsg-1.1); however:
  Package virtualbox is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing virtualbox-dkms (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 virtualbox
 virtualbox-qt
 virtualbox-dkms
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Miho:/home/david#


Miho:/home/david# dpkg --configure virtualbox
Setting up virtualbox (4.1.18-dfsg-1.1) ...
insserv: script virtualbox: service vboxdrv already provided!
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing virtualbox (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 virtualbox
Miho:/home/david# dpkg -l | grep virtualbox
iF  virtualbox                                   4.1.18-dfsg-1.1
i386         x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
rc  virtualbox-4.2                               4.2.4-81684~Debian~wheezy
i386         Oracle VM VirtualBox
iU  virtualbox-dkms                              4.1.18-dfsg-1.1
all          x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources for dkms
iU  virtualbox-qt                                4.1.18-dfsg-1.1
i386         x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface
Miho:/home/david# dpkg --purge virtualbox-4.2
(Reading database ... 235633 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing virtualbox-4.2 ...
Purging configuration files for virtualbox-4.2 ...
Miho:/home/david#
Miho:/home/david# dpkg --configure virtualbox
Setting up virtualbox (4.1.18-dfsg-1.1) ...
[ ok ] Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules.
[FAIL] Starting VirtualBox kernel modules[....] No suitable module for running
kernel found ... failed!
 failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed.
Miho:/home/david#
Miho:/home/david# dpkg --configure virtualbox
dpkg: error processing virtualbox (--configure):
 package virtualbox is already installed and configured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 virtualbox
Miho:/home/david# apt-get install virtualbox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
virtualbox is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up virtualbox-dkms (4.1.18-dfsg-1.1) ...
Loading new virtualbox-4.1.18 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 3.2.0-4-686-pae
Building initial module for 3.2.0-4-686-pae
Done.



After purging Oracle's Virtualbox-4.2, the installation completes successfully.





-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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+nmu3
ii  dpkg             1.16.9
ii  libc6            2.13-35
ii  libcurl3         7.26.0-1
ii  libgcc1          1:4.7.2-4
ii  libgsoap2        2.8.7-1
ii  libpng12-0       1.2.49-1
ii  libpython2.7     2.7.3~rc2-2.1
ii  libsdl1.2debian  1.2.15-5
ii  libssl1.0.0      1.0.1c-4
ii  libstdc++6       4.7.2-4
ii  libvncserver0    0.9.9+dfsg-1
ii  libx11-6         2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxcursor1      1:1.1.13-1
ii  libxext6         2:1.3.1-2
ii  libxml2          2.8.0+dfsg1-6
ii  libxmu6          2:1.1.1-1
ii  libxt6           1:1.1.3-1
ii  python           2.7.3~rc2-1
ii  python2.7        2.7.3~rc2-2.1
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages virtualbox recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  8.0.4-2
ii  libqt4-opengl             4:4.8.2+dfsg-2
ii  libqtcore4                4:4.8.2+dfsg-2
ii  libqtgui4                 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2
iu  virtualbox-dkms           4.1.18-dfsg-1.1
iu  virtualbox-qt             4.1.18-dfsg-1.1

Versions of packages virtualbox suggests:
pn  vde2                            <none>
pn  virtualbox-guest-additions-iso  <none>

-- no debconf information