I can confirm this behaviour on Karmic i386. Here some additional details :
1) virtualbox ose package: Package: virtualbox-ose Priority: optional Section: universe/misc Installed-Size: 24292 Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-m...@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Debian Virtualbox Team <pkg-virtualbox-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: i386 Version: 3.0.8-dfsg-1ubuntu1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libcurl3 (>= 7.16.2-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libpython2.6 (>= 2.6), libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.10-1), libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8f-5), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1), libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libxmu6, libxslt1.1 (>= 1.1.18), libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), python (>= 2.4), python-central (>= 0.6.11), adduser Recommends: virtualbox-ose-source (= 3.0.8-dfsg-1ubuntu1), virtualbox-ose-qt (= 3.0.8-dfsg-1ubuntu1), libgl1, libhal1 Suggests: virtualbox-guest-additions, libasound2, libpulse0 Conflicts: virtualbox, virtualbox-2.0, virtualbox-2.1, virtualbox-2.2, virtualbox-3.0 Filename: pool/universe/v/virtualbox-ose/virtualbox-ose_3.0.8-dfsg-1ubuntu1_i386.deb Size: 6330620 MD5sum: 426eb2aba01e8a3a0579ff5207ac516f SHA1: 820998e81bf569d08731765bd8cf24cce1a99266 SHA256: afdc95924ef8de840386360831694b7c925dfb5d957fce2abb5c8f571c36c683 Description: x86 virtualization solution - base binaries VirtualBox is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range of x86 operating systems such as Windows, DOS, BSD or Linux to run on a Linux system. . This package provides the binaries for the Open Source Edition of VirtualBox. The virtualbox-ose-source package is also required in order to compile the kernel modules needed for virtualbox-ose. A graphical user interface for VirtualBox is provided by the package virtualbox-ose-qt. Homepage: http://www.virtualbox.org/ Python-Version: >= 2.4 Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Origin: Ubuntu 2) lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 9.10 Release: 9.10 Codename: karmic ** Package changed: ubuntu => virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- Lucid alpha2 does not boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508777 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs