Activity log for bug #264849

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2008-09-04 21:08:28 Daniel Hahler bug added bug
2008-09-04 21:25:40 Daniel Hahler description In the same way that virtualbox-ose conflicts with virtualbox (the official package), virtualbox-ose-modules packages should conflict with "virtualbox". With virtualbox-ose and virtualbox-ose-modules-* installed, the following error happens when installing virtualbox from the official repository: Removing virtualbox-ose ... Shutting down VirtualBox host networking ...done. * Stopping VirtualBox kernel module vboxdrv [ OK ] Selecting previously deselected package virtualbox. (Reading database ... 370820 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking virtualbox (from .../virtualbox_1.6.6-35336%5fUbuntu%5fhardy_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox_1.6.6-35336%5fUbuntu%5fhardy_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/misc/vboxdrv.ko', which is also in package virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-19-generic dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox_1.6.6-35336%5fUbuntu%5fhardy_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I think there should be a "Conflicts: virtualbox" with every binary package that ships vboxdrv.ko. In the same way that virtualbox-ose conflicts with virtualbox (the official package), virtualbox-ose-modules packages should conflict with "virtualbox". With virtualbox-ose and virtualbox-ose-modules-* installed, the following error happens when installing virtualbox from the official repository: Removing virtualbox-ose ... Shutting down VirtualBox host networking ...done. * Stopping VirtualBox kernel module vboxdrv [ OK ] Selecting previously deselected package virtualbox. (Reading database ... 370820 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking virtualbox (from .../virtualbox_1.6.6-35336%5fUbuntu%5fhardy_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox_1.6.6-35336%5fUbuntu%5fhardy_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/misc/vboxdrv.ko', which is also in package virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-19-generic dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox_1.6.6-35336%5fUbuntu%5fhardy_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I think there should be a "Conflicts: virtualbox, virtualbox-2.0" with every binary package that ships vboxdrv.ko.
2008-11-03 22:53:00 Daniel Hahler virtualbox-ose-modules: status New Triaged
2008-11-03 22:53:00 Daniel Hahler virtualbox-ose-modules: importance Undecided Medium
2008-11-03 22:53:00 Daniel Hahler virtualbox-ose-modules: statusexplanation