[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#770833: virtualbox-dkms: Error "Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)" after "aptitude upgrade"

[Elias Andrade]

Package: virtualbox-dkms
Version: 4.3.18-dfsg-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

After system upgrade (aptitude upgrade) and system reboot, when i try to start
a VM in Virtualbox, a error "Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)... Please
reinstall the kernel module by executing /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup as root" is
showed.

/etc/init.d/vboxdrv doesn't exist.

To solve the problem, i reinstalled the package virtualbox-dkms and load
manually the modules:

aptitude reinstall virtualbox-dkms
modprobe vboxnetadp
modprobe vboxnetflt
modprobe vboxpci

After, VM's is started normally!



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virtualbox-dkms depends on:
ii  dkms        2.2.0.3-2
ii  dpkg        1.17.21
ii  virtualbox  4.3.18-dfsg-1

virtualbox-dkms recommends no packages.

virtualbox-dkms suggests no packages.

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