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lost virtual box when upgrade 9.04 to 9.10 want it back

Asked by Waluyo Adi Siswanto

When I upgrade 9.04 to 9.10, the previous virtual box was removed during the process. I could not find virtualbox in 9.10.
How can I get virtualbox up again using previous files so I will not lost files inside. I still have folder .virtualbox, but I could not see my files?

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Soul-Sing (soulzing) said : 		#1

a little change with this in the terminal....: sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

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Waluyo Adi Siswanto (was-wlk) said : 		#2

Thanks
I got these:
* Stopping VirtualBox kernel module
* done.
* Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module
* Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong

I looked this file and found:
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv: 339: /usr/share/virtualbox/src/vboxdrv/build_in_tmp: not found

I don't have folder /usr/share/virtualbox
(deleted when I upgraded..?)

What should I do?
Thanks in advance

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Best Stefan Eggers (stefan-eggers) said : 		#3

I myself would try to reinstall virtualbox. in such a situation I'd open a terminal and give these commands:

    sudo apt-get --reinstall install virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-source

This makes sure that not only these packages are installed, but (due to "--reinstall") that the files are really all there even if they were inadvertedly deleted for whatever reason.

After this I expect /etc/init.d/vboxdrv to work. Virtualbox should be able to start then.

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Waluyo Adi Siswanto (was-wlk) said : 		#4

Thanks Stefan Eggers, that solved my question.