Control: retitle 928390 unable to remove/upgrade where installed version is not operational Control: severity 928390 grave
Even worse: The following packages will be REMOVED: virtualbox-ext-pack 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1062 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 130 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 685523 files and directories currently installed.) Removing virtualbox-ext-pack (6.0.4-1) ... WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist. Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and the appropriate headers, most likely linux-headers-5.0.5+. You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed. 0%... Progress state: NS_ERROR_FAILURE VBoxManage: error: Failed to uninstall "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack" VBoxManage: error: The installer failed with exit code 1: VBoxExtPackHelperApp: error: The owner is not root: '/usr/lib' VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component ExtPackManagerWrap, interface IExtPackManager VBoxManage: error: Context: "RTEXITCODE handleExtPack(HandlerArg*)" at line 1402 of file VBoxManageMisc.cpp dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-ext-pack (--remove): installed virtualbox-ext-pack package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: virtualbox-ext-pack E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Regards, Eduard.