It turned out that it was more complicating than the above.
I had to use the update-rc.d to disable and remove any vbox* and
virtualbox under /etc/init.d.
But this didn't solve the problem either. I had to manually move these
files outside the /etc/init.d (this is equivalent to deleting them but
Ok the problem was the vboxdrv.
While virtualbox was removed,
the vboxdrv was supplied by the virtualbox-dkms package (which was not removed).
Therefore removing manually virtualbox (again) and virtualbox-dkms (explicitly)
removes everything.
Then reinstalling virtualbox solved the problem.
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Public bug reported:
While trying to upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04.
Something with virtual box. It couldn't install virtualbox.
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: virtualbox 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-119.166-generic 3.13.11-ckt39
Uname:
Update:
- I had an almost full /boot:
After cleaning it and running update-mkinitramfs (which completed ok) I did:
dpkg --configure -a
This finished ok.
Then rebooted.
I am on 14.04 now. Seems ok now.
sudo apt-get update works
sudo apt-get upgrade works.
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Public bug reported:
Just followed the procedure until I got a failure.
(sudo bash
do-release-upgrade
answered any questions received
crashed)
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: linux-image-extra-3.13.0-119-generic 3.13.0-119.166
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-63.95-gen
