[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#880005: virtualbox: vboxdrv is not loaded automatically

[Ralf Jung]

Package: virtualbox
Version: 5.1.30-dfsg-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

after installing virtualbox and virtualbox-dkms, I'd expect that I can just
start the GUI and fire up a VM.  However, that fails complaining about a missing
kernel module.  I have to `modprobe vboxdrv` manually.  Not even a reboot helps.

The application should load the kernel module automatically, as necessary.

Kind regards,
Ralf

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages virtualbox depends on:
ii  adduser                               3.116
ii  iproute2                              4.9.0-2
ii  libc6                                 2.24-17
ii  libcurl3-gnutls                       7.55.1-1
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1                    2:1.02.142-1
ii  libgcc1                               1:7.2.0-11
ii  libgsoap-2.8.49                       2.8.49-1
ii  libpng16-16                           1.6.34-1
ii  libpython3.6                          3.6.3-1
ii  libsdl1.2debian                       1.2.15+dfsg2-0.1
ii  libssl1.1                             1.1.0f-5
ii  libstdc++6                            7.2.0-11
ii  libvncserver1                         0.9.11+dfsg-1
ii  libvpx4                               1.6.1-3
ii  libx11-6                              2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxcursor1                           1:1.1.14-3
ii  libxext6                              2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxml2                               2.9.4+dfsg1-5
ii  libxmu6                               2:1.1.2-2
ii  libxt6                                1:1.1.5-1
ii  procps                                2:3.3.12-3
ii  python3                               3.6.3-1
ii  python3.6                             3.6.3-1
ii  virtualbox-dkms [virtualbox-modules]  5.1.30-dfsg-1
ii  zlib1g                                1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages virtualbox recommends:
ii  libgl1          0.2.999+git20170802-5
ii  libqt5core5a    5.9.1+dfsg-9
ii  libqt5opengl5   5.9.1+dfsg-9
ii  libqt5widgets5  5.9.1+dfsg-9
ii  virtualbox-qt   5.1.30-dfsg-1

Versions of packages virtualbox suggests:
pn  vde2                            <none>
pn  virtualbox-guest-additions-iso  <none>

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