kernel update breaks virtualbox

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Sep 25 12:47:58 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 18:37 +1000, Roger wrote:
> On 25/09/10 18:23, Tim wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 19:53 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
> >> Well, I finally made it to the site.  There is "Free" and "NonFree",
> >> which I had interpreted to mean "Pay", the opposite of "Free".
> > "Freedom," in this case, from various restrictions, or not quite so free
> > from them.
> >
> I'm late in on this subject but can say that the last 3 kernel updates 
> always broke Virtualbox in Ubuntu 10.4 on my daughter's laptop.
> She has to reinstall Vbox and windows if she updates a kernel.
> Roger

Reinstall or recompile? I always have to recompile (i.e. run the setup
script) after a new kernel install. I've never had it work any other way
so I guess I don't consider it a bug.

poc



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