Package: virtualbox-ose-dkms Severity: normal I'm not sure if this is even a bug, or if it should be against the virtualbox-ose-dkms or dkms package...
I used virtualbox-ose-dkms (3.0.10) because it became the default recently, but when virtualbox-ose-source (3.1.2) later became an option, I purged virtualbox-ose-dkms and went with virtualbox-ose-source . After building from virtualbox-ose-source (using module-assistant) and installing the resulting package, trying to start virtual machines resulting in: RTR3Init failed with rc=-1912 (rc=-1912) Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and execute 'modprobe vboxdrv' as root. I tracked the problem down to the vbox* modules loaded in the kernel being the wrong (old, 3.0.10) version left behind by dkms , in /lib/modules/{linux-version}/updates/dkms . So, I: * 'dpkg -S /lib/modules/{linux-version}/updates' to make sure nothing claims them * confirmed only vbox* modules were in /lib/modules/{linux-version}/updates * 'sudo invoke-rc.d virtualbox-ose stop' (to unload the (old) vbox* modules) * delete /lib/modules/{linux-version/updates (and their contents, the dkms directory and vbox* modules) * maybe a 'sudo depmod' or 'sudo dpkg -i {virtualbox-ose-modules}', I forget * 'sudo invoke-rc.d virtualbox-ose start' and all is well. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org