[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#798979: Bug#798979: virtualbox: DSA-3359-1 causes VBoxClient to send error message "The VirtualBox kernel service is not running" and to break off.

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 10:26 +0200, Dirk Olsen wrote:
> Trigger für hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) werden verarbeitet ...
> Trigger für desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) werden verarbeitet ...
> Trigger für mime-support (3.58) werden verarbeitet ...
> Trigger für systemd (215-17+deb8u2) werden verarbeitet ...
> virtualbox (4.3.30-dfsg-1+deb8u1) wird eingerichtet ...
> Job for virtualbox.service failed. See 'systemctl status 
> virtualbox.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
> invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed.
> virtualbox-qt (4.3.30-dfsg-1+deb8u1) wird eingerichtet ...
> virtualbox-guest-utils (4.3.30-dfsg-1+deb8u1) wird eingerichtet ...
> virtualbox-guest-x11 (4.3.30-dfsg-1+deb8u1) wird eingerichtet ...
> Neue Version der Konfigurationsdatei 
> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/98vboxadd-xclient wird installiert ...
> update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported;
> falling back to defaults
> virtualbox-dbg (4.3.30-dfsg-1+deb8u1) wird eingerichtet ...
> virtualbox-dkms (4.3.30-dfsg-1+deb8u1) wird eingerichtet ...


Action "restart" failed.


restart is defined as:

case "$1" in
start)
        start
        ;;
stop)
        stop_vms && stop
        ;;
stop_vms)
        stop_vms
        ;;
restart|force-reload)
        stop_vms && stop && start
        ;;


So assuming stop_vms never exits clean, the rest of the targets will
not be executed. And given that the driver unload is in the stop
target, that may never happen.


@Dirk, Like Gianfranco mentioned, if you reboot your Host Machine, the
problem should go away.

@Gianfranco: Maybe we should just warn the user with a Debconf prompt.
For derivatives that do not use debconf, document it in README.Debian
????

-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System
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