Bug#524555: apt-get install virtualbox-ose gets wrong kernel module!
Control: forcemerge 605608 -1
Control: severity 605608 wishlist
Control: tag 605608 wontfix
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:16:56PM -0400, Deniz Akcal wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.7.20.2
> Severity: normal
>
> I had filed this as a virtualbox-ose bug but apparently that was the
> wrong place to
> file the bug report so here I am posting the same message here from bug
> #523951:
>
> "sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose installs
> virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-amd64 instead of
> virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-2-amd64 and on the recent update of the
> kernel (2.6.26-2-amd64), you need virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-2-amd64.
>
> When you do sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose this should be all done
> automatically or even if it isn't supposed to be automatic, it should
> get the right modules package!
>
> The workaround for this is to just get the
> virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-2-amd64 package and remove the older one
> before doing sudo modprobe.
>
> I am not sure if this is a duplicate or not, which is why I still filed
> this report but I'll link it to this: Debian Bug #502346"
Merging with the equivalent report about nvidia drivers, and downgrading
to wishlist and tagging wontfix, as that's not possible for us to do.
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