Public bug reported:

Virtualbox made errors, i cant install things anymore

sudo apt install lm-sensors
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  fancontrol read-edid i2c-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  lm-sensors
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 90,1 kB of archives.
After this operation, 387 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 lm-sensors amd64 
1:3.6.0-9build1 [90,1 kB]
Fetched 90,1 kB in 0s (784 kB/s)      
Selecting previously unselected package lm-sensors.
(Reading database ... 222271 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../lm-sensors_1%3a3.6.0-9build1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking lm-sensors (1:3.6.0-9build1) ...
Setting up lm-sensors (1:3.6.0-9build1) ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/lm-sensors.service 
→ /usr/lib/systemd/system/lm-sensors.service.
Setting up virtualbox-dkms (7.0.16-dfsg-2ubuntu1.1) ...
Removing old virtualbox-7.0.16 DKMS files...
Deleting module virtualbox-7.0.16 completely from the DKMS tree.
Loading new virtualbox-7.0.16 DKMS files...
Building for 6.17.0-14-generic
Building initial module for 6.17.0-14-generic
ERROR: Cannot create report: [Errno 17] File exists: 
'/var/crash/virtualbox-dkms.0.crash'
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.17.0-14-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/7.0.16/build/make.log for more information.
dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-dkms (--configure):
 installed virtualbox-dkms package post-installation script subprocess returned 
error exit status 10
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox:
 virtualbox depends on virtualbox-dkms (>= 7.0.16-dfsg-2ubuntu1.1) | 
virtualbox-source (>= 7.0.16-dfsg-2ubuntu1.1) | virtualbox-modules; however:
  Package virtualbox-dkms is not configured yet.
  Package virtualbox-source is not installed.
  Package virtualbox-modules is not installed.
  Package virtualbox-dkms which provides virtualbox-modules is not configured 
yet.

dpkg: error processing package virtualbox (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox-qt:
 virtualbox-qt depends on virtualbox (= 7.0.16-dfsg-2ubuntu1.1); however:
  Package virtualbox is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-qt (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup 
error from a previous failure.
                                                                                
                          No apport report written because the error message 
indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                    Processing triggers for 
man-db (2.12.0-4build2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 virtualbox-dkms
 virtualbox
 virtualbox-qt
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: virtualbox 7.0.16-dfsg-2ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.17.0-14.14~24.04.1-generic 6.17.9
Uname: Linux 6.17.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.8
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Wed Feb 25 02:38:15 2026
InstallationDate: Installed on 2026-02-14 (11 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 24.04.4 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 (20260210)
SourcePackage: virtualbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
VirtualBox.DpkgList:
 ii  linux-headers-6.17.0-14-generic                          
6.17.0-14.14~24.04.1                        amd64        Linux kernel headers 
for version 6.17.0
 ii  linux-headers-generic-hwe-24.04                          
6.17.0-14.14~24.04.1                        amd64        Generic Linux kernel 
headers
 iU  virtualbox                                               
7.0.16-dfsg-2ubuntu1.1                      amd64        x86 virtualization 
solution - base binaries
 iF  virtualbox-dkms                                          
7.0.16-dfsg-2ubuntu1.1                      amd64        x86 virtualization 
solution - kernel module sources for dkms
 iU  virtualbox-qt                                            
7.0.16-dfsg-2ubuntu1.1                      amd64        x86 virtualization 
solution - Qt based user interface
modified.conffile..etc.default.virtualbox: [deleted]
modified.conffile..etc.init.d.virtualbox: [deleted]

** Affects: virtualbox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug noble

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