** Description changed: A lot of users break their system by installing the wrong flavor of the virtualbox-ose-modules package (kernel module for virtualbox-ose), e.g. virtualbox-ose-modules-386 on a linux-generic system. This pulls in linux-image-$ABI-386, through the Depends of virtualbox-ose-modules-386. After reboot, this new kernel image appears to get used, but it's missing the kernel modules etc. Therefore, I'd like to change the Depends of virtualbox-ose- modules-$ABI-$FLAVOR to a Recommends instead. This way, installing the wrong virtualbox-ose-modules package would only make virtualbox-ose not work correctly (vboxdrv not available for the used kernel flavor), but won't install a kernel image that the user does not want (and causes him trouble). + + Another option would be to depend on the kernel meta packages, e.g. + linux-386, linux-generic etc. This way you may still pull in another + kernel flavor accidentally, but it would not cause so much harm. + + See also bug 188579, which is about apt selecting the most appropriate + package automatically. + + + WORKAROUND / FIX FOR AFFECTED USERS: + In case you're affected by this bug, the following steps or a variation thereof might fix it: + 1. Make sure you have two different kernel image flavors installed, e.g. linux-image-2.6.24-18-generic and linux-image-2.6.24-18-386 + 2. Check "uname -a" to see which one is installed + 3. Make sure you can boot the correct one, which would be -generic in most cases - you can select the one to use during boot from the Grub menu + 4. Once booted, install the v-o-m package for the correct kernel, e.g. "virtualbox-ose-modules-generic" + 5. Remove the unnecessary kernel image package, e.g. linux-image-2.6.24-18-386, and the v-o-m package for it + 6. Reboot
-- Installing module for wrong kernel flavor breaks system (modules missing) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226960 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
