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mooreted

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Registered: 2009-01-01

Posts: 113

(SOLVED) Virtualbox 2.2 pervents system upgrade

There doesn't seem to be a way to uninstall VirtualBox 2.2 PUEL which I installed from the Sun site. Now I can't upgrade my system. I get the following error:

bash-3.2# pacman -Syu --ignore virtualbox-modules
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace libxml++2 with extra/libxml++? [Y/n]
resolving dependencies...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: xorg-server will be installed before its nvidia-utils dependency
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: virtualbox-modules: requires kernel26<2.6.29

VirtualBox is pretty much a toy to me, I'd rather just get rid of it if it's going to cause problems with maintaining my system.

Last edited by mooreted (2009-04-11 06:13:42)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: (SOLVED) Virtualbox 2.2 pervents system upgrade

--ignore virtual-modules will not do a thing because there is no update for that package. you have that error because that packages _HAS_ as dependency kernel 2.6.28.
if is a toy remove it and install virtualbox_bin for aur
pacman -Rns virtualbox-ose virtualbox-modules

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schuay

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From: Austria

Registered: 2008-08-19

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Re: (SOLVED) Virtualbox 2.2 pervents system upgrade

this happens every time a new kernel comes around and it's very annoying.. i switched to virtualbox_bin from aur, usually all you need to do there is rebuild the modules (for kernel 2.6.29 check the forum, there's a thread about needed modifications for the modules to build).

mooreted

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Registered: 2009-01-01

Posts: 113

Re: (SOLVED) Virtualbox 2.2 pervents system upgrade

--ignore virtual-modules will not do a thing because there is no update for that package. you have that error because that packages _HAS_ as dependency kernel 2.6.28.
if is a toy remove it and install virtualbox_bin for aur
pacman -Rns virtualbox-ose virtualbox-modules

I haven't found a way to remove it. I guess I can find everything name "VirtualBox" or "virtualbox" and delete them all.

mooreted

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Registered: 2009-01-01

Posts: 113

Re: (SOLVED) Virtualbox 2.2 pervents system upgrade

Okay. Did:

find . -name "*vbox*"-exec rm -rf {} \;
find . -name "*virtualbox*"-exec rm -rf {} \;

Upgrade is proceeding normally.

Thanks.