Bug#982460: cloud.debian.org: Vagrant up error: Unable to locate package linux-headers-4.9.0-12-amd64

[Emmanuel Kasper <emmanuel@libera.cc>]

Hi Uros
Thanks for your interest for the Vagrant boxes.
There are two ways you can solve this:
- either you use the box debian/contrib-buster64 which comes with the 
guest additions preinstall, and you remove the vbguest plugin so that it 
does not try to reinstall the extensions
- or you simply install the last version of linux-headers-amd64 in box 
you have
apt install linux-headers-amd64
and restart the box

Tell me if that works for you.

Note that in the future  (starting in the forthcoming Debian 11 - 
Bullseye) the vbguest plugin should be useless as the Linux Kernel has 
builtin support for the Virtual Box guest extensions.

On 2/10/21 3:04 PM, Uros Tement wrote:
> Package: cloud.debian.org
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> for all Vagrant boxes on running vagrant up with vbguest additions, this error is found "Unable to locate package linux-headers-4.9.0-12-amd64".
>
> As far as I was able to debug, new kernel version 4.9.0-14 is available in repository and verison 4.9.0-12 is not available anymore in repository. Since linux headers are not available vboxfs mount fails.
>
> I think an update of all boxes for new kernel headers is needed.
>
> Best regards,
> Uros
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 9.12
>    APT prefers oldstable
>    APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-12-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)