Package: virtualbox Version: 5.0.14-dfsg-2 Severity: important Hi,
on every dist-upgrade where virtualbox was involved the following happens in my sid chroot: 1 (sid)root@frodo / # apt-get dist-upgrade :( Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libbasicusageenvironment0 libgroupsock1 libgsoap7 libilmbase6v5 liblivemedia23 libopenexr6v5 libsodium13 libusageenvironment1 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be upgraded: virtualbox 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/14.0 MB of archives. After this operation, 429 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Reading changelogs... Done E: Can not write log (Is /dev/pts mounted?) - posix_openpt (2: No such file or directory) (Reading database ... 403779 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox_5.0.14-dfsg-2+b1_amd64.deb ... Failed to stop vboxweb.service: Unit vboxweb.service not loaded. dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 5 dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ... Failed to stop vboxweb.service: Unit vboxweb.service not loaded. dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox_5.0.14-dfsg-2+b1_amd64.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 5 vboxweb.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it. Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox_5.0.14-dfsg-2+b1_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) This is a chroot (of a complete sid system). So of course vboxweb is not running and never was active. When I boot that sid system and do the dist-upgrade from there it works, but that is not the solution... Maybe check whether the unit is loaded before trying to do something with it? Regards, Rene
