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Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 1.5.4-dfsg-4
Severity: normal
Hi
I just spent some time fiddling with virtualbox-ose on Lenny.
$ VirtualBox
WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
Please install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your
kernel and load the module named vboxdrv into your system.
You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
$ sudo modprobe vboxdrv
FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.
The virtualbox-ose-modules-* packages ship the virtualbox-ose module.
(This is also the first time I've needed to manually load a module in more
than 2 years. It's not obvious to me why this one isn't autoloaded.)
Secondly you might want to add a note about needing to add users to the
vboxusers group to README.debian.
Thanks for you work in Debian.
Andrew V.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.19 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3-20080116-1 GCC support library
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.0.2-4 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.5-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libidl0 0.8.9-0.1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.7-9 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-1 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii libstdc++6 4.3-20080116-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxalan110 1.10-3.1 Provides XSLT support for applicat
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library
ii libxerces27 2.7.0-5 validating XML parser library for
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends:
ii virtualbox-ose-modu 2.6.22+1.5.2-dfsg2-9 PC virtualization solution modules
ii virtualbox-ose-modu 2.6.22+1.5.2-dfsg2-9 PC virtualization solution modules
-- debconf information:
* virtualbox-ose/upstream_version_change: true
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--- Begin Message ---
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:51:48AM +1100, Andrew Vaughan wrote:
> The virtualbox-ose-modules-* packages ship the virtualbox-ose module.
This is a well know bug that has been fixed quite some time ago. I'm
sorry that you nevertheless ran into it. We're all just waiting for a
more up-to-date kernel zu migrate to Lenny which in the process will
also give you a new linux-modules-extra package that fixes the problem.
You could without a problem take those packages from Sid.
> (This is also the first time I've needed to manually load a module in more
> than 2 years. It's not obvious to me why this one isn't autoloaded.)
Any idea how to accomplish this?
Michael
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