UPDATE: david@sneaker:~$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done The following partially installed packages will be configured: linux-headers-2.6.28-13-generic linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic (2.6.28-13.45) ... Running depmod. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-13-generic Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled (2.6.28-13.44 was configured last, according to dpkg) Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled (2.6.28-13.44 was configured last, according to dpkg) Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub. Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-13-generic Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d. run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms * Running DKMS auto installation service for kernel 2.6.28-13-generic * vboxdrv (2.0.6)... vboxdrv (2.0.6): Unable to locate /var/lib/dkms/vboxdrv/2.0.6/source/dkms.conf DKMS tree must be manually fixed. [fail] run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common exited with return code 10 Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic.postinst line 1002. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Setting up linux-headers-2.6.28-13-generic (2.6.28-13.45) ... Examining /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d. run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms * Running DKMS auto installation service for kernel 2.6.28-13-generic * vboxdrv (2.0.6)... vboxdrv (2.0.6): Unable to locate /var/lib/dkms/vboxdrv/2.0.6/source/dkms.conf DKMS tree must be manually fixed. [fail] run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/nvidia-common run-parts: /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/nvidia-common exited with return code 10 Failed to process /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-headers-2.6.28-13-generic.postinst line 110. dpkg: error processing linux-headers-2.6.28-13-generic (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic linux-headers-2.6.28-13-generic E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic (2.6.28-13.45) ... Running depmod. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-13-generic Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled (2.6.28-13.44 was configured last, according to dpkg) Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled (2.6.28-13.44 was configured last, according to dpkg) Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub. Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-13-generic Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d. run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms * Running DKMS auto installation service for kernel 2.6.28-13-generic * vboxdrv (2.0.6)... vboxdrv (2.0.6): Unable to locate /var/lib/dkms/vboxdrv/2.0.6/source/dkms.conf DKMS tree must be manually fixed. [fail] run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common exited with return code 10 Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic.postinst line 1002. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Setting up linux-headers-2.6.28-13-generic (2.6.28-13.45) ... Examining /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d. run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms * Running DKMS auto installation service for kernel 2.6.28-13-generic * vboxdrv (2.0.6)... vboxdrv (2.0.6): Unable to locate /var/lib/dkms/vboxdrv/2.0.6/source/dkms.conf DKMS tree must be manually fixed. [fail] run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/nvidia-common run-parts: /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/nvidia-common exited with return code 10 Failed to process /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-headers-2.6.28-13-generic.postinst line 110. dpkg: error processing linux-headers-2.6.28-13-generic (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic linux-headers-2.6.28-13-generic Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done