VirtualBox

[Saqman2060]

Sorry to hear of your frustrations. 

We will try to work with you on this issue. 

First thing, undo everything you did through the terminal. 

If you have virtualbox installed, uninstall it.

#sudo apt-get remove virtualbox

Then

#sudo apt-get purge virtualbox

This assures that virtualbox and all its systems files have been removed from being used.

We will do this one step at a time, so not to overwhelm you. Send another email with the results of the above procedure and we will take it from there.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Thomas Blasejewicz" <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp>
Sent: ‎10/‎17/‎2014 5:04 AM
To: "ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: VirtualBox

Good evening
The VirtualBox installation nightmare continues.
All I ever get is:
"Failed to open a session for the virtual machine "WinXP".
"Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)"

I am trying on two different Xubuntu 14.04 machines with plenty of RAM 
and HDD.
Tried to install; trying both Software Center and Package Manager;
when that did not work -> remove (completely) and reinstall = no effect.
(went through those procedures several times, including rebooting etc.)
Only on the machine at home I also got the following 2 errors:
"VirtualBox-dkms: subprocess installed post-installation
script returned error exit status 6"

and a little later the Updater popped up:
"Package Operation failed.
The installation or removal of a software package failed."

When all that did not help, I asked here for help and was advised to do 
an incredible amount of "sudo acrobatics" (far too much acrobatics for 
an old man like me). The below list shows most of the commands (from 
various posts) I was advised to implement.
Did ALL of them in the order instructed, but none worked.

BUT all that sudo acrobatics then send the entire system over the edge, 
so that I had to bother the list with that "aptdaemon error".

It took me another 2-3 days with more dizzying sudo acrobatics.
Finally, the system is "back online" (sort of ..).

Stupid as I am I went through the entire routine (installation etc., not 
acrobatics) again. Hoping that MAYBE...

Now I assume, that when I try to repeat that sudo acrobatics, the system 
too will go jump off the edge of the world again.

Is there really no way to make this thing work???
Preferably a way ordinary mortal men can do.

The ubuntu, VirtualBox and other websites have at their respective top 
those nice promotional statements:
Linux (Ubuntu) is easy.
It works out of the box.
It is very stable.
etc.

That is DEFINITELY NOT my experience.
But if I want to work with Linux (absolute SF story at the moment),
I NEED something like VirtualBox, since the dictionaries available for 
Linux I have seen so far are very poor excuses for dictionaries.



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 >> have you tried manually running 'sudo modprobe vboxdrv'?

sudo apt-get --reinstall install virtualbox virtualbox-dkms

(This is what I have on a working system:
ii  virtualbox  4.3.10-dfsg-1
ii  virtualbox-dkms  4.3.10-fsg-1
ii  virtualbox-guest-additions-iso 4.3.10-1
ii  virtualbox-qt 4.3.10-dfsg-1)

sudo service vboxdrv restart

Do not run
sudo service vboxdrv setup

$ dpkg -l | grep dkms
ii  dkms
2.2.0.3-1.1ubuntu5  all  Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework
ii  sl-modem-dkms 2.9.11~20110321-9 amd64        SmartLink software
modem driver - module building source

if you have not already added the virtualbox repository to your
/etc/apt/sources.list add it now:

echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian trusty
contrib" > /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev linux-headers-`uname -r`
sudo apt-get install dkms
sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-4.3
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo
apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.3

sudo apt-get install dkms


sudo apt-get install dkms

# sudo -s -H
# apt-get clean
# rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*
# rm /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/*
# apt-get clean
# apt-get update


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