[Bug 1844805] Re: virtualbox, virtualbox-dkms, virtualbox-qt fail during upgrade from 19.04 to 19.10

[Jonathan Kamens]

I was fully updated in disco before I upgraded to 19.10.

I think the problem is that it's not good enough for the tip disco
kernel to be updated. One old kernel version is saved even after
autoremove, and if the user doesn't run autoremove then I think any
number of old kernels could be saved, and I believe dkms will try to
build modules for all of them?

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Title:
  virtualbox, virtualbox-dkms, virtualbox-qt fail during upgrade from
  19.04 to 19.10

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in virtualbox package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I upgraded this morning from 19.04 to 19.10 with `do-release-upgrade
  -d` and the upgrade reported that virtualbox, virtualbox-qt, and
  virtualbox-dkms encountered problems during the upgrade.

  I uninstalled and reinstalled them after rebooting and saw this:

  ```
  ERROR (dkms apport): kernel package linux-headers-5.0.0-29-generic is not supported
  Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.0.0-29-generic (x86_64)
  Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.0.12/build/make.log for more information.
  ```

  I think this means the version of virtualbox in 19.10 doesn't want to
  compile against a 19.04 kernel?

  The problem with this, of course, is that everyone who upgrades from
  19.04 to 19.10 is going to have a 19.04 kernel installed during the
  upgrade (and afterward, since one old kernel is saved), so the upgrade
  will fail for everyone with virtualbox installed. I think this needs
  to be fixed?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
  Package: virtualbox (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-10.11-generic 5.3.0-rc8
  Uname: Linux 5.3.0-10-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Fri Sep 20 10:47:44 2019
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-09-12 (7 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Release amd64 (20190416)
  SourcePackage: virtualbox
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2019-09-20 (0 days ago)

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