On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 16:07:15 +0100 Michael Meskes <mes...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 07:15:01PM +0800, clayton wrote: > > After the latest update, when I start a Virtual Machine I get the > > following error in a popup: > > ... > > Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and execute > > 'modprobe vboxdrv' as root." > > > > If I follow this advice, it does not fix the problem, I just get > > the > > Is the module build? What happens if you try modprobing it, any > error? Also dmesg output might be helpful. > > > same errors again. I also tried to create my own vboxdrv using > > > > "m-a a-i virtualbox-ose" > > > > and that failed with build errors. > > Giving us the build errors might be helpful too. It's rather > difficult to judge what's going without detail information. Could it > by that you don't have the necessary packages installed? "m-a > prepare" might help. This problem spontaneously disappeared and now virtualbox works, without any new virtualbox packages. So I would say there seems to have been something wrong with the environment that went away with one of my subsequent daily apt-get upgrades. Clayton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org