[Cialug] Hosed Virtualbox Install - Looking for suggestions

Tue Nov 1 22:50:06 CDT 2016

I've borked my VBos install several times. The only stable way I've found is a clean install.

Migrate over the data, Vdisks, and pray.

Jared Brees<http://me.relatedtotechnology.org/> - Squirrel Photographer<http://squirrels.relatedtotechnology.org/>

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org <cialug-bounces at cialug.org> on behalf of c <cbpurcell at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 9:30 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Hosed Virtualbox Install - Looking for suggestions

I have rebooted multiple times since installing them. I didn't reboot after
uinstalling or right after installing.

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 9:11 AM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Silly question: did you reboot after you installed the new kernel packages?
>
> -dc
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 6:45 AM, Kyle H <khamil8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > when you have it reinstalled, try dpkg-L <pkg name> to see every file it
> > installed, then do apt-get purge, and make sure every thing it installed
> is
> > gone when un installed
> >
> > On Oct 23, 2016 8:26 PM, "c" <cbpurcell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Posted this on the virtualbox forums, but thought I would try here in
> > case
> > > anyone has an idea.
> > >
> > > I have completely hosed my virtualbox install. I am trying to
> completely
> > > uninstall it so I can then install and get it working again. This is
> > > running on ubuntu 16.04 with mate for the desktop.
> > >
> > > I uninstalled the 5.0 virtualbox with apt-get remove. I tried to
> install
> > > virtualbox 5.1 series using dpkg. As soon as I installed 5.1, I got the
> > an
> > > error that I couldn't start any of my VMs and to recompile the kernel.
> > That
> > > didn't work. So I thought I would just uninstall 5.1 and try to return
> to
> > > 5.0 that used to work. I cannot seem to unisntall virtualbox now
> > >
> > > I have the following installed on my system:
> > > - virtualbox-5.1 5.1.8-111374~U 5.1.8-111374~U
> > > - virtualbox-ext-pack 5.0.24-0ubuntu 5.0.24-0ubuntu
> > >
> > >
> > > When I try to uninstall I get following error message
> > >
> > │
> > >   │ Running VMs found
> > >  │
> > >   │
> > >  │
> > >   │ VirtualBox is currently running. Please close it and try again.
> > Please
> > >   │
> > >   │ note that it can take up to ten seconds for VirtualBox (in
> particular
> > >  │
> > >   │ the VBoxSVC daemon) to finish running.
> > >
> > > But I ps and grep or pgrep and there are no virtualbox processes
> running
> > > before I start the remove.
> > >
> > > When I click ok, I return to terminal with this output:
> > >
> > > ---------------------
> > > root at purcell-shinybeast:/etc/apt# sudo apt-get remove --purge
> > > virtualbox-5.1
> > > Reading package lists... Done
> > > Building dependency tree
> > > Reading state information... Done
> > > The following additional packages will be installed:
> > >   libgsoap8 libvncserver1 virtualbox virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-qt
> > > Suggested packages:
> > >   vde2 virtualbox-guest-additions-iso
> > > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> > >   virtualbox-5.1*
> > > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> > >   libgsoap8 libvncserver1 virtualbox virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-qt
> > > 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > > Need to get 0 B/22.5 MB of archives.
> > > After this operation, 61.6 MB disk space will be freed.
> > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> > > Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-dkms.
> > > (Reading database ... 494499 files and directories currently
> installed.)
> > > Preparing to unpack
> > > .../virtualbox-dkms_5.0.24-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.1_all.deb ...
> > > Unpacking virtualbox-dkms (5.0.24-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.1) ...
> > > Selecting previously unselected package libgsoap8:amd64.
> > > Preparing to unpack .../libgsoap8_2.8.28-1_amd64.deb ...
> > > Unpacking libgsoap8:amd64 (2.8.28-1) ...
> > > Selecting previously unselected package libvncserver1:amd64.
> > > Preparing to unpack .../libvncserver1_0.9.10+dfsg-3build1_amd64.deb
> ...
> > > Unpacking libvncserver1:amd64 (0.9.10+dfsg-3build1) ...
> > > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
> > > dpkg: virtualbox-5.1: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you
> > > requested:
> > >  virtualbox-ext-pack depends on virtualbox (>= 5.0) | virtualbox-5.0 |
> > > virtualbox-5.1; however:
> > >   Package virtualbox is not installed.
> > >   Package virtualbox-5.1 which provides virtualbox is to be removed.
> > >   Package virtualbox-5.0 is not installed.
> > >   Package virtualbox-5.1 is to be removed.
> > >  virtualbox-ext-pack depends on virtualbox (>= 5.0) | virtualbox-5.0 |
> > > virtualbox-5.1; however:
> > >   Package virtualbox is not installed.
> > >   Package virtualbox-5.1 which provides virtualbox is to be removed.
> > >   Package virtualbox-5.0 is not installed.
> > >   Package virtualbox-5.1 is to be removed.
> > >
> > > (Reading database ... 494802 files and directories currently
> installed.)
> > > Removing virtualbox-5.1 (5.1.8-111374~Ubuntu~xenial) ...
> > > dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-5.1 (--purge):
> > >  subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/virtualbox-5.1.postinst: 95:
> > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/virtualbox-5.1.postinst:
> > > /usr/lib/virtualbox/prerm-common.sh: not found
> > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/virtualbox-5.1.postinst: 96:
> > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/virtualbox-5.1.postinst:
> > > /usr/lib/virtualbox/postinst-common.sh: not found
> > > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > >  virtualbox-5.1
> > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > > root at purcell-shinybeast:/etc/apt#
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > ---------------
> > >
> > > Any ideas would be much appreciated.
> > >
> > > Purcell
> > >
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