[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#873142: virtualbox-dkms: Installation hangs running depmod...

[Ivan Kohler]

Package: virtualbox-dkms
Version: 5.1.24-dfsg-2
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

Installation hangs running "depmod..." and printing a period every few seconds.

ps shows the command being run is:
  depmod -a 4.11.0-1-amd64 -F /boot/System.map-4.11.0-1-amd64

It has been running for over 25 minutes now, but does not appear to be using
any CPU or resources.

Ctrl-C does not stop the installation process.  Sending a kill signal to the
depmod process does not have any effect.

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

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages virtualbox-dkms depends on:
ii  dkms  2.3-3

Versions of packages virtualbox-dkms recommends:
ii  virtualbox  5.1.24-dfsg-2

virtualbox-dkms suggests no packages.

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