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virtualbox-ose package

package virtualbox-ose-dkms (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 5

Bug #839758 reported by art alexion on 2011-09-02

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #804033: package virtualbox-ose-dkms (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 5. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Apt output:

dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 58129 package 'virtualbox-3.1':
error in Version string '3.1.6-59338_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid character in revision number
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 58130 package 'virtualbox-3.1':
error in Config-Version string '3.1.6-59338_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid character in revision number
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 61457 package 'virtualbox-3.1':
error in Version string '3.1.6-59338_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid character in revision number
Selecting previously deselected package dkms.
(Reading database ... 456716 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking dkms (from .../dkms_2.1.1.2-5ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package virtualbox-ose-dkms.
Unpacking virtualbox-ose-dkms (from .../virtualbox-ose-dkms_4.0.4-dfsg-1ubuntu4.1_all.deb) ...
dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
Removing obsolete module vboxdrv version 3.1.6
dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.

Error! Bad conf file.
File: /var/lib/dkms/vboxdrv/3.1.6/source/dkms.conf does not represent
a valid dkms.conf file.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox-ose-dkms_4.0.4-dfsg-1ubuntu4.1_all.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 5
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox-ose-dkms_4.0.4-dfsg-1ubuntu4.1_all.deb
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 58134 package 'virtualbox-3.1':
error in Version string '3.1.6-59338_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid character in revision number
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 58135 package 'virtualbox-3.1':
error in Config-Version string '3.1.6-59338_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid character in revision number
Setting up dkms (2.1.1.2-5ubuntu1) ...

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: virtualbox-ose-dkms (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.49-generic-pae 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic-pae i686
AptOrdering:
dkms: Install
virtualbox-ose-dkms: Install
dkms: Configure
virtualbox-ose-dkms: Configure
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 2 13:20:42 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 5
SourcePackage: virtualbox-ose
Title: package virtualbox-ose-dkms (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 5
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-08-06 (27 days ago)
VirtualBoxOse.ModInfo:

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Revision history for this message

art alexion (art-alexion) wrote on 2011-09-02:

Df.txt Edit (381 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (58.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (3.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LsMod.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VirtualBoxOse.DpkgList.txt Edit (3.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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