Broken VirtualBox

Rasec Solerom rasecsolerom at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 19:34:37 UTC 2021


Hi all...  please excuse the long message, but I want to provide as much
info as possible... Please I need help to solve this problem fast.

I installed some updates this morning and now I can not start any of the
VMs I have been using without problems.
This is Ubuntu 20.04.1 and VirtualBox 6.1 installed from the Ubuntu
repository.
The error I get is the "Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)" error
message that suggests reinstalling the virtualbox-dkms package and running
'modprobe vboxdrv'.
Doing that gave me errors and did not work.
I ran software updater again and made sure everything is updated and
nothing is pending.
I have searched the web extensively and I have not been able to solve the
problem.
When I use Synaptic Package Manager to reinstall virtualbox and
virtualbox-dkms, I get the following error:
E: Internal Error, No file name for virtualbox-dkms:amd64

I thought that a new kernel was installed and the compile of
virtualbox-dkms for the new kernel has some incompatibility and fails.
So I rebooted with the previous kernel and everything fails in the same way.

cesar at chicharrasT470:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall virtualbox-dkms
[sudo] password for cesar:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  libllvm11 mpv python3-click python3-colorama python3-pyxattr rtmpdump
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 17 not
upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
E: Internal Error, No file name for virtualbox-dkms:amd64

cesar at chicharrasT470:~$ uname -a
Linux chicharrasT470 5.4.0-59-generic #65-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 12:01:51
UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I will appreciate any pointers you can provide to help resolve this problem.
Thanks in advance.

Cesar
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