Bug#503473: virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-686: vboxdrv does not create /dev/vboxdrv

[Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala@poste.it>]

Package: virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-686
Version: 2.6.26+1.6.2-dfsg-4
Severity: normal



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-686 depends on:
ii  linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 [lin 2.6.26-9   Linux 2.6.26 image on PPro/Celeron

virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-686 recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

Check out this session:

stefano@geppetto ~> sudo modprobe -r vboxdrv
stefano@geppetto ~> sudo modprobe vboxdrv
stefano@geppetto ~> dmesg | tail -n10
[156266.751606] vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores.
[156266.751620] vboxdrv: fAsync=0 u64DiffCores=1632.
[156266.751652] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
[156266.751655] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 1.6.2_OSE (interface 0x00070002).
[156734.181319] vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently...
[156734.181319] vboxdrv: Successfully done.
[156734.181319] vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores.
[156734.181319] vboxdrv: fAsync=0 u64DiffCores=1056.
[156734.181319] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
[156734.181319] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 1.6.2_OSE (interface 0x00070002).
stefano@geppetto ~> ls -l /dev/vboxdrv
ls: cannot access /dev/vboxdrv: No such file or directory
stefano@geppetto ~> virtualbox
WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
         Please install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your kernel and
         load the module named vboxdrv into your system.

         You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
stefano@geppetto ~> uname -a
Linux geppetto 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Sat Oct 18 16:22:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

I have no idea why the /dev/vboxdrv isn't created.

Regards.