On Friday 18 September 2009 05:04:09 am Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Friday 18 September 2009, Bruce MacArthur wrote: > > I was CERTAIN that there was a specifically identified password prompt and > > that I had responded accordingly. I have verified that now. Sadly, my > > results are the same -- nothing! > > > > Perhaps I should ensure that you realize that, when I tried to get the > > "Details", my system hung. I could do NOTHING with it -- except to > > power-down and "cold-boot". Since that point, I have NOT tried again to > > download and install. I do not know whether (then how) that makes a > > difference, but it is only fair that I inform you of the entire > > situation! > > > > So, what more can I do to be helpful? > > actually my picture of your current situation is still not complete. > If there is no output of 'sudo dpkg --configure --pending' then it > seems that at least all packages are installed correctly. So what > is the current status? What is the output of > > dpkg -s virtualbox-3.0 > > ? Package 'virtualbox-3.0' is not installed and no info is available. Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg ==contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
> How did you get to a system hang, what do you mean by 'get the > "details"', what did you do exactly? I quote from my original message (simply because I wrote it from my best notes, including the actual diagnotic messages, as best I could see them!) -- I have just taken the http://download... link offered above. {That refers to your message announcing the availability of version 3.0.6 -- My original message was a "Reply" to that message of yours.} Because I am running Kubuntu Jaunty as a 32-bit system, I chose the next-to-last (Ubuntu Jaunty x86) option. Next I chose to use KPackageKit. The product downloaded quickly. Eventually, I was asked if I want to install, and I chose the Install option. Now I have three dialogue boxes on my screen. The title-bar of the first says "Installing file - KPackageKit". There is a large bold "Finished" message immediately above what I would normally consider to be a "progress meter". It has a large blue button which is simply going back- and-forth along the "meter" area. The button-options (below the "meter") are "Details", "Hide", and "Cancel"; "Hide" is active. The title-bar of the second dialogue box says "An internal system error has occurred - KPackageKit". There is a warning symbol (exclamation-mark within triangle), the message "A problem that wee were not expecting has occurred. Please report this bug with the error description." There are two buttons -- "Details" and "OK". When I tried "Details" -- to make this report more usable! -- my system "hung"; I lost ALL control, and NOTHING would happen! The final dialogue box simply declared that "An error has occurred." And it covered-up the other two! > > Kind regards, > > Frank > -- > Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems, Inc. www.sun.com > I felt (and continue to feel) VERY "frustrated" by the fact that I could NOT offer ANY details of substance because i know that such details are your best tools for figuring out what has happened and how to best respond to the existing situation. However, when I sought out those details, I was "stopped cold". I have not yet made another attempt to do the (download and) installation task. Bruce Mac Arthur _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
