Package: virtualbox Version: 5.2.8-dfsg-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
During package installation, virtualbox, virtualbox-qt, and virtualbox-source (and possibly other packages) print the following error message if the virtualbox-guest-utils package is not installed (and not being installed): Failed to preset unit: Unit file virtualbox-guest-utils.service does not exist. /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper: error: systemctl preset failed on virtualbox-guest-utils.service: No such file or directory Presumably the issue is that deb-systemd-helper should only be called for virtualbox-guest-utils.service from the virtualbox-guest-utils maintainer scripts, but is instead being called for all binary packages from the same source package. Thanks, Kevin P.S. Full log from upgrading to 5.2.8-dfsg-1 on my system: -8<------------------------------------------------------------------ Performing actions... Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 307708 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../0-virtualbox-dbgsym_5.2.8-dfsg-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking virtualbox-dbgsym (5.2.8-dfsg-1) over (5.2.6-dfsg-5) ... Preparing to unpack .../1-virtualbox-qt-dbgsym_5.2.8-dfsg-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking virtualbox-qt-dbgsym (5.2.8-dfsg-1) over (5.2.6-dfsg-5) ... Preparing to unpack .../2-virtualbox-qt_5.2.8-dfsg-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking virtualbox-qt (5.2.8-dfsg-1) over (5.2.6-dfsg-5) ... Preparing to unpack .../3-virtualbox-source_5.2.8-dfsg-1_all.deb ... Unpacking virtualbox-source (5.2.8-dfsg-1) over (5.2.6-dfsg-5) ... Preparing to unpack .../4-virtualbox_5.2.8-dfsg-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking virtualbox (5.2.8-dfsg-1) over (5.2.6-dfsg-5) ... Setting up virtualbox-source (5.2.8-dfsg-1) ... Failed to preset unit: Unit file virtualbox-guest-utils.service does not exist. /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper: error: systemctl preset failed on virtualbox-guest-utils.service: No such file or directory Setting up virtualbox (5.2.8-dfsg-1) ... Failed to preset unit: Unit file virtualbox-guest-utils.service does not exist. /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper: error: systemctl preset failed on virtualbox-guest-utils.service: No such file or directory vboxweb.service is a disabled or a static unit not running, not starting it. Setting up virtualbox-dbgsym (5.2.8-dfsg-1) ... Processing triggers for systemd (237-3) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.1-1) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.9-2) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-1) ... Setting up virtualbox-qt (5.2.8-dfsg-1) ... Failed to preset unit: Unit file virtualbox-guest-utils.service does not exist. /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper: error: systemctl preset failed on virtualbox-guest-utils.service: No such file or directory Setting up virtualbox-qt-dbgsym (5.2.8-dfsg-1) ... -8<------------------------------------------------------------------ -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.15.7-kevinoid1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages virtualbox depends on: ii adduser 3.117 ii iproute2 4.15.0-2 ii libc6 2.26-6 ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.58.0-2 ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.145-4.1 ii libgcc1 1:8-20180218-1 ii libgsoap-2.8.60 2.8.60-2 ii libpng16-16 1.6.34-1 ii libpython3.6 3.6.4-4 ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.15+dfsg2-0.1 ii libssl1.1 1.1.0g-2 ii libstdc++6 8-20180218-1 ii libvncserver1 0.9.11+dfsg-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.15-1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2 ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1 ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2 ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1 ii procps 2:3.3.12-4 ii python3 3.6.4-1 ii python3.6 3.6.4-4 ii virtualbox-modules-4.15.1-kevinoid1 [virtualbox-modu 5.2.8-dfsg-1+4.15.7-1 ii virtualbox-modules-4.15.7-kevinoid1 [virtualbox-modu 5.2.8-dfsg-1+4.15.7-1 ii virtualbox-source 5.2.8-dfsg-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 Versions of packages virtualbox recommends: ii libgl1 1.0.0-2 ii libqt5core5a 5.9.2+dfsg-12 ii libqt5opengl5 5.9.2+dfsg-12 ii libqt5widgets5 5.9.2+dfsg-12 ii virtualbox-qt 5.2.8-dfsg-1 Versions of packages virtualbox suggests: pn vde2 <none> ii virtualbox-guest-additions-iso 5.2.7-120528-1 -- no debconf information