[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#826303: virtualbox-dkms: Installation unsuccesfull

[Tobias Frost]

On Sat, 04 Jun 2016 11:58:12 +0200 jsbien at mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S.
=?utf-8?Q?Bie=C5=84?=) wrote:
> Package: virtualbox-dkms
> Version: 5.0.20-dfsg-2
> Severity: grave
> 
> When I start virtualbox, I get
> 
> WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
> 	 Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and the
appropriate
> 	 headers, most likely linux-headers-amd64.
> 
> The package is actually installed, but the following message was
issued:
> 
> Setting up virtualbox-dkms (5.0.20-dfsg-2) ...
> Loading new virtualbox-5.0.20 DKMS files...
> First Installation: checking all kernels...
> Building only for 4.1.0-1-amd64
> Module build for the currently running kernel was skipped since the
> kernel headers for this kernel do not seem to be installed.
> 
> But, as you can see, I'm running 4.1.0-1-amd64...
> 
>

Please verify if you installed the kernel headers for 4.1.0-1-amd64...

Can you please post the output of dpkg -l linux-headers-4.1.0-1-amd64



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tobi