** Description changed:
Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose
After installing virtualbox-ose-2.0.2-dfsg-0ubuntu3 on Intrepid beta
(amd64), VirtualBox doesn't work. When run from the commandline, it
complains:
"Could not find VirtualBox installation. Please reinstall."
Looking at the actual virtualbox shell script which is being run, it's
failing because /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg is missing. This file doesn't seem to
be provided by any package on intrepid. I assume it was included in
previous package versions, and there was just a packaging error that
caused it to be missed from the current package, but its absence pretty
much breaks VirtualBox.
+
+
+ virtualbox-2.1 (the "official", PUEL package) does the following in postinst:
+ if [ -f /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg ]; then
+ echo "Found old version of /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg, removing."
+ rm /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg
+ fi
+
+ Therefore, I think this problem happens when you install virtualbox-ose,
+ then virtualbox-2.1 (or another package from virtualbox.org), _without_
+ purging virtualbox-ose before and afterwards re-install virtualbox-ose
+ (which does not re-create the removed vbox.cfg file then).
+
+ I'm not sure how to address this though (maybe make sure during
+ installation of virtualbox-ose that the file gets created always?) and
+ it seems like a packaging issue with the official packages.
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose
After installing virtualbox-ose-2.0.2-dfsg-0ubuntu3 on Intrepid beta
(amd64), VirtualBox doesn't work. When run from the commandline, it
complains:
"Could not find VirtualBox installation. Please reinstall."
Looking at the actual virtualbox shell script which is being run, it's
failing because /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg is missing. This file doesn't seem to
be provided by any package on intrepid. I assume it was included in
previous package versions, and there was just a packaging error that
caused it to be missed from the current package, but its absence pretty
much breaks VirtualBox.
+ DISCOVERIES (from Daniel):
virtualbox-2.1 (the "official", PUEL package) does the following in postinst:
if [ -f /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg ]; then
echo "Found old version of /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg, removing."
rm /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg
fi
Therefore, I think this problem happens when you install virtualbox-ose,
then virtualbox-2.1 (or another package from virtualbox.org), _without_
purging virtualbox-ose before and afterwards re-install virtualbox-ose
(which does not re-create the removed vbox.cfg file then).
I'm not sure how to address this though (maybe make sure during
installation of virtualbox-ose that the file gets created always?) and
it seems like a packaging issue with the official packages.
--
Virtualbox 2.0.2 missing config (vbox.cfg) due to upgrade (through non-ose
package)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280973
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