Hi Folks! March 29. 2018

Just had an issue with a one of the Ubuntu Updates clobbering my
VirtualBox -- great! there goes the BBS and ILink!!

Error messages included:

- Virtualbox kernel module not match; try 'modprobe vboxdrv'
(Didn't appears to do anything except to return to Terminal
immediately.)

- RTR3InitEx failed with rc=-1912 (rc=-1912). The installed support
driver doesn't match the version of the user. (I've heard about
these cryptic error messages on Macs!)

- Error: NS_Error_Failure (0x80004005) (So the 80004005 code says to
go to Sun's website and download the Linux installer. I don't want
to clobber what had been working!)

So rebooted. SOS.

Rebooted and went back to the previous version (the new and improved
everything except VirtualBox was 4.4.0-116, went back to 4.4.0.112.
That got the SOS too. Grr.

Rebooted to go back to the current version; not sure if I want to try to
fix or wait for a correct that may not occur: had looked around the web
for a simple and non-destructive fix; the issue has popped up for
several years, with dozens of proposed corrections, so of which stated
works, others stated did not work. Among them:

- sudo modprobe vboxdrv ==> the original trial was without sudo.
This trial worked as well as the original.

- sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall virtualbox
Got the same errors.

Fiddle-fiddle, search, search. Dawns on me there's potentially a step missing, so:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Was going to go on with with the --reinstall step but decided to check,
maybe because I had noticed a 'response line' re: 'virtualbox dkms'
scroll by. VirtualBox works (yeaaaa!!) and did upgrade as the screen
looks slightly different.

Hopefully this can help someone else.





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BARRY MARTIN wrote:

Hi Folks! March 29. 2018

- sudo modprobe vboxdrv ==> the original trial was without sudo.
This trial worked as well as the original.

- sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall virtualbox
Got the same errors.

Fiddle-fiddle, search, search. Dawns on me there's potentially a step missing, so:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Well, that's intuitive! ;)
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Hi Ky!

- sudo modprobe vboxdrv ==> the original trial was without sudo.
This trial worked as well as the original.

- sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall virtualbox
Got the same errors.

Fiddle-fiddle, search, search. Dawns on me there's potentially a step missing, so:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Well, that's intuitive! ;)

Thanks! I'm still learning and so 'cookbooking' projects and solutions. Figured adding the 'upgrade' step wasn't going to cause a problem.

Not what 'install' does different from 'upgrade' but apparently was the missing step my system wanted.

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Not what 'install' does different from 'upgrade' but apparently was the missing step my system wanted.

I am guessing the package you were trying to install
was not compatable with an older version of another package it depends on.

Upgrade may have picked up a newer version of a package that it was
dependent on, where install would not have picked up the newer version of
the other package.

At least I think that is how it works (and how I have run into trouble with
it before!).

Mike

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