[Cialug] Hosed Virtualbox Install - Looking for suggestions

Wed Nov 2 09:37:47 CDT 2016

I ended up taking the road of last resort and basically deleting every file
with 'vbox' and 'virtualbox' from the machine, rebooting, and then
installing fresh. I was lucky even that worked.

I'm going to start regularly exporting my VMs and backing them up so I can
recover from this better in the future.

Purcell

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Jared Brees <fromj2sitsme at msn.com> wrote:

> 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/>
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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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