Your message dated Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:33:31 +0100
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and subject line Re: virtualbox-dkms: leftover files from previous versions
prevent module building with current version
has caused the Debian Bug report #919949,
regarding virtualbox-dkms: leftover files from previous versions prevent module
building with current version
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919949: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919949
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: virtualbox-dkms
Version: 5.2.24-dfsg-4
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
after an upgrade from 5.2.22-dfsg-2 to 5.2.24-dfsg-2 I can't install kernel
images any more:
root@neocortex:~# LANG=C apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up linux-image-4.19.0-2-amd64-unsigned (4.19.16-1) ...
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms:
Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file.
File: /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.22/source/dkms.conf does not exist.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms exited with return code 4
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-4.19.0-2-amd64-unsigned
(--configure):
installed linux-image-4.19.0-2-amd64-unsigned package post-installation
script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Setting up linux-headers-4.19.0-2-amd64 (4.19.16-1) ...
/etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms:
Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file.
File: /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.22/source/dkms.conf does not exist.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms exited with return code 4
Failed to process /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d at
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-headers-4.19.0-2-amd64.postinst line 11.
dpkg: error processing package linux-headers-4.19.0-2-amd64 (--configure):
installed linux-headers-4.19.0-2-amd64 package post-installation script
subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-4.19.0-2-amd64-unsigned
linux-headers-4.19.0-2-amd64
Looking in /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.22/ shows leftover files:
root@neocortex:~# find /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.22/
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.22/
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.22/x86_64
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.22/x86_64/module
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.22/x86_64/module/vboxnetflt.ko
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.22/x86_64/module/vboxpci.ko
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.22/x86_64/module/vboxdrv.ko
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.22/x86_64/module/vboxnetadp.ko
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.22/x86_64/log
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.22/x86_64/log/make.log
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.22/source
I had invoked dkms recently using wrong parameters for --kernelsourcedir
which might have been leading to this situation.
Manually removing the /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.22/ directory solves the
problem.
Kind regards
Sebastian Bremicker
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers proposed-updates
APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.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 2.6.1-4
Versions of packages virtualbox-dkms recommends:
ii virtualbox 5.2.24-dfsg-4
virtualbox-dkms suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
triaging / cleaning up old bugs:
The DKMS handling works fine, I guess this issue has been fixed
already. If not, please feel free to reopen this bug.
--- End Message ---
