Changeset 62676 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Additions/linux

Timestamp:

Jul 29, 2016 12:32:42 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

svn:sync-xref-src-repo-rev:

109249

Message:

bugref:8524: Additions/linux: play nicely with distribution-installed Additions: only delete kernel modules that we put in place ourselves to avoid deleting Ubuntu-supplied modules.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Additions/linux/installer/vboxadd.sh (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/Additions/linux/installer/vboxadd.sh

@@ -309 +309 @@
 {
     begin "Removing existing VirtualBox kernel modules"
-    # We no longer support DKMS, remove any leftovers.
-    for i in vboxguest vboxadd vboxsf vboxvfs vboxvideo; do
+    for i in ${OLDMODULES}; do
+        # We no longer support DKMS, remove any leftovers.
         rm -rf "/var/lib/dkms/${i}"*
-    done
-    for i in $OLDMODULES; do
-        find /lib/modules -name $i\* | xargs rm 2>/dev/null
+        # And remove old modules.
+        rm -f /lib/modules/*/misc/"${i}"*
     done
     # Remove leftover module folders.