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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/24/2014 07:09 PM, Elias Andrade
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<pre wrap="">Package: virtualbox-dkms
Version: 4.3.18-dfsg-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
After system upgrade (aptitude upgrade) and system reboot, when i try to start
a VM in Virtualbox, a error "Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)... Please
reinstall the kernel module by executing /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup as root" is
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I guess we need to patch this. In Debian, this is
/etc/init.d/virtualbox.<br>
The error message is from upstream and misleads users.<br>
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/etc/init.d/vboxdrv doesn't exist.
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As explained above.<br>
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To solve the problem, i reinstalled the package virtualbox-dkms and load
manually the modules:
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Just a restart of the virutalbox service should suffice. Actually,
perhaps we should be doing this in the dkms postinst itself.<br>
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But, why did the problem occur in the first place ??<br>
Did you have the necessary header packages installed ?<br>
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aptitude reinstall virtualbox-dkms
modprobe vboxnetadp
modprobe vboxnetflt
modprobe vboxpci
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The init script does the same.<br>
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After, VM's is started normally!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages virtualbox-dkms depends on:
ii dkms 2.2.0.3-2
ii dpkg 1.17.21
ii virtualbox 4.3.18-dfsg-1
virtualbox-dkms recommends no packages.
virtualbox-dkms suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf
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"Necessity is the mother of invention."
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