[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#886743: virtualbox-dkms now requires package libelf-dev to work

[Christian Pietsch]

Package: virtualbox-dkms
Version: 5.2.4-dfsg-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I noticed that virtualbox can no longer launch any VM because
/dev/vboxdrv does not exist. Trying to reinstall virtualbox-dkms
aborted. The logfile gave me the helpful advice to install libelf-dev.

Installing libelf-dev helped: Reinstalling virtualbox-dkms built a
fresh module, and after `modprobe vboxdrv`, my VMs can be started
again.

I suggest that libelf-dev be added as a dependeny of this package.

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

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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

Versions of packages virtualbox-dkms recommends:
ii  virtualbox  5.2.4-dfsg-2

virtualbox-dkms suggests no packages.

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