Control: retitle 928390 unable to remove/upgrade where installed version is not
operational
Control: severity 928390 grave
Even worse:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
virtualbox-ext-pack
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1062 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 130 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 685523 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing virtualbox-ext-pack (6.0.4-1) ...
WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and the appropriate
headers, most likely linux-headers-5.0.5+.
You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
0%...
Progress state: NS_ERROR_FAILURE
VBoxManage: error: Failed to uninstall "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack"
VBoxManage: error: The installer failed with exit code 1: VBoxExtPackHelperApp:
error: The owner is not root: '/usr/lib'
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component
ExtPackManagerWrap, interface IExtPackManager
VBoxManage: error: Context: "RTEXITCODE handleExtPack(HandlerArg*)" at line
1402 of file VBoxManageMisc.cpp
dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-ext-pack (--remove):
installed virtualbox-ext-pack package pre-removal script subprocess returned
error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
virtualbox-ext-pack
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Regards,
Eduard.
