Hi jdeca57
Many thanks for the speedy reply.
This is what i've tried since:
Code:
xx:~$ uname -r
3.8.0-31-generic
xx:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
[sudo] password for xx:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-headers-generic is already the newest version.
linux-headers-generic set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
xx:~$ sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
virtualbox-dkms
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 4 141 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 387844 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing virtualbox-dkms ...
------------------------------
Deleting module version: 4.2.16
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
xx:~$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
virtualbox-dkms
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/514 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4 141 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-dkms.
(Reading database ... 387575 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking virtualbox-dkms (from .../virtualbox-dkms_4.2.16-dfsg-3ubuntu0.1_all.deb) ...
Setting up virtualbox-dkms (4.2.16-dfsg-3ubuntu0.1) ...
Loading new virtualbox-4.2.16 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 3.8.0-31-generic
Module build for the currently running kernel was skipped since the
kernel source for this kernel does not seem to be installed.
* Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
* Starting VirtualBox kernel modules * No suitable module for running kernel found
[fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed.
xx:~$
xx:~$
So still not working ...
CG
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