Hello I faced a similar issue while upgrading virtualbox: dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-qt (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for systemd (221-1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: virtualbox virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-qt E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Failed to perform requested operation on package. Trying to recover: Setting up virtualbox (4.3.28-dfsg-1+b1) ... insserv: script virtualbox: service vboxdrv already provided! insserv: exiting now! update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header dpkg: error processing package virtualbox (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox-qt: virtualbox-qt depends on virtualbox (= 4.3.28-dfsg-1+b1); however: Package virtualbox is not configured yet. Package virtualbox-4.3 which provides virtualbox is not installed.
The following page gave a hint as the origin of the problem: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2253862&page=2 I indeed had a leftover file after purging virtualbox: # ll /etc/init.d/vboxdrv -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12680 Oct 10 2014 /etc/init.d/vboxdrv # dlocate /etc/init.d/vboxdrv virtualbox-4.3: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv # apt-get purge virtualbox-4.3 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: virtualbox-4.3* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 400124 files and directories currently installed.) Removing virtualbox-4.3 (4.3.18-96516~Debian~wheezy) ... Purging configuration files for virtualbox-4.3 (4.3.18-96516~Debian~wheezy) ... Once virtual-box-4.3 is purged, the following command works fine: # apt-get install virtualbox-qt virtualbox-dkms All the best -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
