I guess that at least one virtualbox vm was still running when this bug occurred, right?
I tried to uninstall the package virtualbox-ose with a still running vm and that triggered the same failure as yours. The failure happens in the prerm script which calls "invoke-rc.d virtualbox-ose stop". So looking at the init script of virtualbox it appears that the function that is supposed to stop the VMs ( stop_vms() ) uses variables defined in /etc/default/virtualbox-ose. In this file, the variable SHUTDOWN_USERS is by default an empty string. And if left blank, it prevents the function stop_vms to stop any VM. Could you please confirm that defining this variable with "all" or your username only, you are able to uninstall virtualbox-ose even when a vm was running? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/745429 Title: package virtualbox-ose 4.0.4-dfsg-1ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
