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and subject line Re: bug#166: virtualbox: install fail 4.3.36 & 5.1_5.1.30-118389~Debian~jessie
has caused the Devuan bug report #166,
regarding virtualbox: install fail 4.3.36 & 5.1_5.1.30-118389~Debian~jessie
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Package: virtualbox
Version: 4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1
Severity: normal




$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
virtualbox-qt
Suggested packages:
vde2 virtualbox-guest-additions-iso
The following NEW packages will be installed:
virtualbox virtualbox-qt
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/18.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 80.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox.
(Reading database ... 132998 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox_4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking virtualbox (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-qt.
Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox-qt_4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking virtualbox-qt (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.3-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58) ...
Setting up virtualbox (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1) ...
[ ok ] Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules.
[FAIL] Starting VirtualBox kernel modules[....] No suitable module for
running kernel found ... failed!
failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed.
Setting up virtualbox-qt (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47) ...
Scanning processes...

Scanning kernel images...

Running kernel seems to be up-to-date.
No services need to be restarted.




$ sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.1_5.1.30-118389~Debian~jessie_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-5.1.
(Reading database ... 132998 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack
.../virtualbox-5.1_5.1.30-118389~Debian~jessie_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking virtualbox-5.1 (5.1.30-118389~Debian~jessie) ...
Setting up virtualbox-5.1 (5.1.30-118389~Debian~jessie) ...
Adding group `vboxusers' (GID 117) ...
Done.
vboxdrv.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what
went wrong.
Linux distribution base type not recognised.

There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up
process, run
/sbin/vboxconfig
as root.
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.3-1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58) ...



$ cat /var/log/vbox-install.log
Makefile:205: *** Error: unable to find the include directory for your
current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_INCL=<directory> and run Make again.
Stop.

-- System Information:
Distributor ID:    Devuan
Description:    Devuan GNU/Linux 1.0 (jessie)
Release:    1.0
Codename:    jessie
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages virtualbox depends on:
ii  adduser          3.113+nmu3
ii  libc6            2.19-18+deb8u10
ii  libcurl3-gnutls  7.38.0-4+deb8u7
ii  libgcc1          1:4.9.2-10
ii  libgsoap5        2.8.17-1
ii  libpng12-0       1.2.50-2+deb8u3
ii  libpython2.7     2.7.9-2+deb8u1
ii  libsdl1.2debian  1.2.15-10+b1
ii  libssl1.0.0      1.0.1t-1+deb8u7
ii  libstdc++6       4.9.2-10
ii  libvncserver0    0.9.9+dfsg2-6.1+deb8u2
ii  libvpx1          1.3.0-3
ii  libx11-6         2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxcursor1      1:1.1.14-1+b1
ii  libxext6         2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxml2          2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u5
ii  libxmu6          2:1.1.2-1
ii  libxt6           1:1.1.4-1+b1
ii  python           2.7.9-1
ii  python2.7        2.7.9-2+deb8u1
pn  python:any       <none>
ii  virtualbox-dkms  4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages virtualbox recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  10.3.2-1+deb8u1
ii  libqt4-opengl             4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u1
ii  libqtcore4                4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u1
ii  libqtgui4                 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u1
ii  virtualbox-qt             4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1

Versions of packages virtualbox suggests:
pn  vde2                            <none>
pn  virtualbox-guest-additions-iso  <none>

-- no debconf information
On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 12:14:46AM +1100, Fulano Diego Perez wrote:
>
> Package: virtualbox
> Version: 4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1

This relates to a very old version and we are unlikely to be able to debug this
successfully now. Closing.

If it is still an issue, please open a new bug report.

Thanks.

Mark