id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host 8610,Virtualbox-ose stops other packages installation,Sathish Kumar,,"Hi, Recently I upgraded my kernal from 2.6.35 to 2.6.38 and after installed virtualbox-ose; The installation itself failed, and now not able to uninstall vb.. or even install/uninstall any applications... for example, installation of pidgin is giving exception as below. Pls help other than reinstalling my OS. Its urgent; Error:- .... (Reading database ... 180138 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking pidgin-data (from .../pidgin-data_1%3a2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package pidgin. Unpacking pidgin (from .../pidgin_1%3a2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package pidgin-libnotify. Unpacking pidgin-libnotify (from .../pidgin-libnotify_0.14-4ubuntu1_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for python-gmenu ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.UTF8.cache... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for gconf2 ... Processing triggers for python-support ... Setting up virtualbox-ose-dkms (3.2.8-dfsg-2ubuntu1) ... Removing old virtualbox-ose-3.2.8 DKMS files... ------------------------------ Deleting module version: 3.2.8 completely from the DKMS tree. ------------------------------ Done. Loading new virtualbox-ose-3.2.8 DKMS files... First Installation: checking all kernels... Building only for 2.6.38-4-generic Building initial module for 2.6.38-4-generic Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.38-4-generic (i686) Consult the make.log in the build directory /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.2.8/build/ for more information. Traceback (most recent call last): File ""/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/dkms.py"", line 57, in report.write(open(apport.fileutils.make_report_path(report), 'w')) IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/crash/virtualbox-ose-dkms.0.crash' dpkg: error processing virtualbox-ose-dkms (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10 No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already Setting up pidgin-data (1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2) ... Setting up pidgin (1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2) ... Setting up pidgin-libnotify (0.14-4ubuntu1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: virtualbox-ose-dkms Setting up virtualbox-ose-dkms (3.2.8-dfsg-2ubuntu1) ... Removing old virtualbox-ose-3.2.8 DKMS files... ------------------------------ Deleting module version: 3.2.8 completely from the DKMS tree. ------------------------------ Done. Loading new virtualbox-ose-3.2.8 DKMS files... First Installation: checking all kernels... Building only for 2.6.38-4-generic Building initial module for 2.6.38-4-generic Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.38-4-generic (i686) Consult the make.log in the build directory /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.2.8/build/ for more information. Traceback (most recent call last): File ""/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/dkms.py"", line 57, in report.write(open(apport.fileutils.make_report_path(report), 'w')) IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/crash/virtualbox-ose-dkms.0.crash' dpkg: error processing virtualbox-ose-dkms (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10",defect,closed,other,VirtualBox 4.0.4,invalid,,,other,other