[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#693731: Fails to install if virtualbox-4.3 is not purged

Gianfranco Costamagna costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it
Tue Jun 30 09:19:54 UTC 2015


You need to choose the official package or the Debian one.

You can't mix them, since they offer both the same driver module.

cheers,

G.





Il Martedì 30 Giugno 2015 11:06, Dominique Dumont <dod at debian.org> ha scritto:
Hello

I faced a similar issue while upgrading virtualbox:
dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-qt (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for systemd (221-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
virtualbox
virtualbox-dkms
virtualbox-qt
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Failed to perform requested operation on package.  Trying to recover:
Setting up virtualbox (4.3.28-dfsg-1+b1) ...
insserv: script virtualbox: service vboxdrv already provided!
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package 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 (= 4.3.28-dfsg-1+b1); however:
  Package virtualbox is not configured yet.
  Package virtualbox-4.3 which provides virtualbox is not installed.


The following page gave a hint as the origin of the problem:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2253862&page=2

I indeed had a leftover file after purging virtualbox:

# ll /etc/init.d/vboxdrv 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12680 Oct 10  2014 /etc/init.d/vboxdrv

# dlocate /etc/init.d/vboxdrv                                                                                                                      
virtualbox-4.3: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv

# apt-get purge virtualbox-4.3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  virtualbox-4.3*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
(Reading database ... 400124 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing virtualbox-4.3 (4.3.18-96516~Debian~wheezy) ...
Purging configuration files for virtualbox-4.3 (4.3.18-96516~Debian~wheezy) 
...

Once virtual-box-4.3 is purged, the following command works fine:
# apt-get install virtualbox-qt virtualbox-dkms 

All the best

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