Bug#1037949: general: After installing VBox Guest Addition on the reboot the system gets into an enternal loop
Control: reassign -1 virtualbox-guest-dkms
Hi VirtualBox maintainers,
this is apparently a bug for you, which was filed against "general".
Chris
On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 01:12:42PM -0400, Bert Nijhof wrote:
> Debian was a fresh install. I tried to install VBox Guest Addtions like I have
> done 100 times for at least 20 different distros. During that install I noticed
> a small line, that said that the linux headers were missing. On the next reboot
> the systen got into an eternal loop trying to add a VBox Service. The system
> also looped selecting Grub Recovery mode.
>
> I reinstalled Debian and before installing VBox Guest Additions, I installed
> perl; make; gcc and the linux headers and afterwards the installation of VBox
> Guest Additions was OK.
>
> Other distros (e.g Ubuntu) avoid the installation of VBox Guest Additions, if
> the dependencies are not satisfied and they clearly tell you what is missing.
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