Package: virtualbox Version: 5.2.16-dfsg-3~bpo9+2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I tried and install VirtualBox on a clean installation of Stretch 9.5, from Stretch-backports, following the instructions given in Debian Wiki.
During the installation I got the following warning: "... Loading new virtualbox-5.2.16 DKMS files... Building for 4.9.0-7-686-pae Building initial module for 4.9.0-7-686-pae Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.9.0-7-686-pae (i686) Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.2.16/build/make.log for more information. Setting up fakeroot (1.21-3.1) ... update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/fakeroot-sysv to provide /usr/bin/fakeroot (fakeroot) in auto mode Setting up virtualbox (5.2.16-dfsg-3~bpo9+2) ... vboxweb.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it. Job for virtualbox.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status virtualbox.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed. ● virtualbox.service - LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/virtualbox; generated; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2018-08-14 20:18:01 CEST; 38ms ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Process: 2983 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/virtualbox start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) .... " The file /var/.../make.log indicated above is attached. Note that I could install successfully VB on a precedent installation of Stretch 9.4, from the given backport at that time. My (very elementary) knowledge of Linux environment does not allow me to understand the cause of the problem. Thanks for your attention -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-7-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages virtualbox depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii init-system-helpers 1.48 ii iproute2 4.9.0-1+deb9u1 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3 ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.52.1-5+deb9u6 ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.137-2 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1 ii libgsoap10 2.8.35-4+deb9u1 ii libpng16-16 1.6.28-1 ii libpython3.5 3.5.3-1 ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.15+dfsg1-4 ii libssl1.1 1.1.0f-3+deb9u2 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18+deb9u1 ii libvncserver1 0.9.11+dfsg-1+deb9u1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.14-1+deb9u1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2 ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2+deb9u2 ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2 ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1 ii procps 2:3.3.12-3+deb9u1 ii python3 3.5.3-1 ii python3.5 3.5.3-1 ii virtualbox-dkms [virtualbox-modules] 5.2.16-dfsg-3~bpo9+2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 Versions of packages virtualbox recommends: ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 13.0.6-1+b2 ii libqt5core5a 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5opengl5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5widgets5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii virtualbox-qt 5.2.16-dfsg-3~bpo9+2 Versions of packages virtualbox suggests: pn vde2 <none> pn virtualbox-guest-additions-iso <none> -- no debconf information