apt pulls in -386 kernel on a -generic system, caused by dependencies (virtualbox-ose)

[Mackenzie Morgan]

I can't really look now.  The way I got it to install successfully was to
apt-get the generic one and let its dependency on virtualbox pull in the
rest of the stuff.  If I try to aptitude install -s virtualbox-ose now, it
says nothing to install because my manual installation of the generic one
has already satisfied it.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Hahler <ubuntu+lists at thequod.de>
wrote:

> On Sunday 23 March 2008 05:36:23 Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
>
> > On the 21st (or 20th....UTC makes Launchpad say funny things), you
> marked
> > this fixed, but I'm still having this problem.
>
> Do you still have that problem?
>
> I think the fixed packages may have just not been distributed by the time
> you
> were still experiencing it. Have you checked that you were using the fixed
> version(s)?
>
> If it's still a problem, please file a new bug (or re-open an existing
> one)
> and provide the output of "dpkg -l | grep virtualbox".
> The version where it has been fixed are mentioned in the bug report.
>
> Please note, that it has only been fixed for new installs of
> virtualbox-ose:
> if the 386 kernel image has been pulled in already, it will stay installed
> of
> course: you can just uninstall the linux-image-*-386 packages in this
> case.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
>
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Daniel Hahler <ubuntu+lists at thequod.de>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > there's a major problem when installing virtualbox-ose or
> > > virtualbox-ose-guest-utils in Hardy.
> > >
> > > These packages each depend on a virtual package
> (virtualbox-ose-modules
> > > and virtualbox-ose-guest-modules).
> > >
> > > These virtual packages get provided by packages, which themselves
> depend
> > > on linux-image-$ABI-$FLAVOR.
> > >
> > > Now, when installing virtualbox-ose-guest-utils on a system with the
> > > "generic" kernel being used/installed, apt does not recognized that
> > > using virtualbox-ose-guest-modules-2.6.24-12-generic would be the
> better
> > > match, but uses the first available "-386" instead.
> > >
> > > So, when users install virtualbox-ose or the guest modules, they are
> > > likely installing an additional kernel image, which isn't required at
> > > all and causes confusion/problems on the next boot (e.g. wireless
> > > broken).
> > >
> > > This does not affect users with "generic" kernels on amd64, because
> > > there's no 386 flavor available for them.
> > >
> > > More details are available on: https://launchpad.net/bugs/188579
> > >
> > > Any ideas how this can get fixed?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for reading and thinking about it.
> > >
> > > Happy hacking,
> > > Daniel.
> > >
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