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dkms package

  1. Bug #830915
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 830915

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spike speigel (frail-knight) wrote : Re: [Oneiric] Error during kernel upgrade: Could not locate dkms.conf file

I'm seeing this in 16.04.2 LTS.

During dist-upgrade I see:

Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file.
File: does not exist.

I too have been having VBox issues, such as locking up my system.

$ sudo apt-cache policy virtualbox dkms
virtualbox:
  Installed: 5.0.36-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2
  Candidate: 5.0.36-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2
  Version table:
 *** 5.0.36-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     5.0.18-dfsg-2build1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse amd64 Packages
dkms:
  Installed: 2.2.0.3-2ubuntu11.3
  Candidate: 2.2.0.3-2ubuntu11.3
  Version table:
 *** 2.2.0.3-2ubuntu11.3 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.2.0.3-2ubuntu11 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages