[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#798979: 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 16:39 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> I think this may be the problem. This snippet is present in both vbox
> and vbox-dkms. So while vbox is upgraded, it triggers it in its
> postinst. But vbox-dkms is still not upgraded. Thus this could lead
> to
> version mismatch and failure.
> 
> This may be similar to #798527.
> 
> 
> So if this root cause is correct, the fix (of adding vbox-dkms
> =BinaryVersion to Pre-Depends: of vbox) should work ???


I got the same issue today while upgrading VBox on my machine.


Unpacking quassel-data (1:0.12.2-1) over (1:0.10.0-2.4) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.3-1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.3-1) ...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (225-1) ...
Setting up virtualbox (5.0.4-dfsg-2) ...
Job for virtualbox.service failed because the control process exited
with error code. See "systemctl status virtualbox.service" and
"journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed.
Setting up virtualbox-qt (5.0.4-dfsg-2) ...
Setting up virtualbox-dkms (5.0.4-dfsg-2) ...
Loading new virtualbox-5.0.4 DKMS files...
Building only for 4.2.0+
Building initial module for 4.2.0+



rrs at learner:~$ sudo systemctl status -l virtualbox.service 
● virtualbox.service - LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/virtualbox)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2015-09-16 11:54:35
IST; 37s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 9078 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/virtualbox stop (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 9102 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/virtualbox start (code=exited,
status=1/FAILURE)

Sep 16 11:54:35 learner systemd[1]: Starting LSB: VirtualBox Linux
kernel module...
Sep 16 11:54:35 learner virtualbox[9102]: Starting VirtualBox kernel
modulesNo suitable module for running kernel found ... failed!
Sep 16 11:54:35 learner virtualbox[9102]: failed!
Sep 16 11:54:35 learner systemd[1]: virtualbox.service: Control process
exited, code=exited status=1
Sep 16 11:54:35 learner systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: VirtualBox
Linux kernel module.
Sep 16 11:54:35 learner systemd[1]: virtualbox.service: Unit entered
failed state.
Sep 16 11:54:35 learner systemd[1]: virtualbox.service: Failed with
result 'exit-code'.
2015-09-16 / 11:55:13 ♒♒♒    ☹  => 3  


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Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
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