Virtualbox-ose stops other packages installation

[Sathish Kumar]

Hi, Recently I upgraded my kernal from 2.6.35 to 2.6.38 and after installed virtualbox-ose; The installation itself failed, and now not able to uninstall vb.. or even install/uninstall any applications... for example, installation of pidgin is giving exception as below. Pls help other than reinstalling my OS. Its urgent; Error:-

.... (Reading database ... 180138 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking pidgin-data (from .../pidgin-data_1%3a2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package pidgin. Unpacking pidgin (from .../pidgin_1%3a2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package pidgin-libnotify. Unpacking pidgin-libnotify (from .../pidgin-libnotify_0.14-4ubuntu1_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for python-gmenu ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.UTF8.cache... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for gconf2 ... Processing triggers for python-support ... Setting up virtualbox-ose-dkms (3.2.8-dfsg-2ubuntu1) ... Removing old virtualbox-ose-3.2.8 DKMS files...

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Deleting module version: 3.2.8 completely from the DKMS tree.

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Done. Loading new virtualbox-ose-3.2.8 DKMS files... First Installation: checking all kernels... Building only for 2.6.38-4-generic Building initial module for 2.6.38-4-generic

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.38-4-generic (i686) Consult the make.log in the build directory /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.2.8/build/ for more information. Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/dkms.py", line 57, in <module>

report.write(open(apport.fileutils.make_report_path(report), 'w'))

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/crash/virtualbox-ose-dkms.0.crash' dpkg: error processing virtualbox-ose-dkms (--configure):

subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10

No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already Setting up pidgin-data (1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2) ... Setting up pidgin (1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2) ... Setting up pidgin-libnotify (0.14-4ubuntu1) ... Errors were encountered while processing:

virtualbox-ose-dkms

Setting up virtualbox-ose-dkms (3.2.8-dfsg-2ubuntu1) ... Removing old virtualbox-ose-3.2.8 DKMS files...

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Deleting module version: 3.2.8 completely from the DKMS tree.

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Done. Loading new virtualbox-ose-3.2.8 DKMS files... First Installation: checking all kernels... Building only for 2.6.38-4-generic Building initial module for 2.6.38-4-generic

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.38-4-generic (i686) Consult the make.log in the build directory /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.2.8/build/ for more information. Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/dkms.py", line 57, in <module>

report.write(open(apport.fileutils.make_report_path(report), 'w'))

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/crash/virtualbox-ose-dkms.0.crash' dpkg: error processing virtualbox-ose-dkms (--configure):

subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10

[Sathish Kumar]

I believe this is because of missing of autoconf.h inside linux folder.

"/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.2.8/build/include/iprt/types.h:97: fatal error: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory"

[Sathish Kumar]

Here are the file location details:

sathish@sathish:/var$ locate autoconf.h /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-27-generic/include/generated/autoconf.h /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-28-generic/include/generated/autoconf.h /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38-4-generic/include/generated/autoconf.h sathish@sathish:/var$ ll /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38-4-generic/include/generated/autoconf.h -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167231 2011-02-17 02:00 /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38-4-generic/include/generated/autoconf.h sathish@sathish:/var$ ll /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-28-generic/include/generated/autoconf.h -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 156490 2011-03-01 21:16 /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-28-generic/include/generated/autoconf.h

[Frank Mehnert]

The kernel modules of VBox 3.2.8 cannot compile against Linux 2.6.38. Please upgrade to VBox 4.0.4.