VirtualBox crashed with SIGABRT in qt_message_output()

[James Carter]

issue is with 14.04... has been happening for a couple of months... I didn't report it because most bugs I encounter have already been reported. Essentially everytime there is an update to the kernel it appears that the dkms for virtualbox fails to install and load properly... this is a relatively new occurrence... within the last couple of months.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: virtualbox-qt 4.3.6-dfsg-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-20.42-generic 3.13.7
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Wed Apr 2 06:31:54 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox --comment CorpDesktop --startvm 65b23abd-8a6a-4cca-9295-73d9481cbfa5 --no-startvm-errormsgbox
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: virtualbox
StacktraceTop:
 qt_message_output(QtMsgType, char const*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
 qFatal(char const*, ...) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
 TrustedError () from /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so
 ?? ()
Title: VirtualBox crashed with SIGABRT in qt_message_output()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-02-21 (39 days ago)
UserGroups:

VirtualBox.ModInfo:

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1208908, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[James Carter (james-p-carter-deactivatedaccount)]

Error received during kernel upgrade....

Setting up linux-headers-3.13.0-23-generic (3.13.0-23.45) ...
Examining /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms 3.13.0-23-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-23-generic
Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file.
File: does not exist.

[James Carter (james-p-carter-deactivatedaccount)]

I work around the issue by reinstalling virtualbox-dkms... which resolves the issue and let's me get back to work...

[James Carter (james-p-carter-deactivatedaccount)]

I don't see anything in what I have provided that would be considered private or even really sensitive so... perhaps un-privatize the one this is a duplicate of... the only other similar issue that is public was back on 12.04... so...