divx118
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9 years ago Closed wb0gaz closed 9 years ago
divx118
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9 years ago 
wb0gaz
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9 years ago Thank you! Problem solved - worked great!
Dave
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 9:28 PM MDT Maurice van Kruchten wrote:
Just follow the https://github.com/divx118/crouton-packages/blob/master/README.md
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/divx118/crouton-packages/issues/14#issuecomment-84233036
(DennisLfromGA suggested I post this here):
I've been using crouton (for the last few months with Ubuntu 14.04 Gnome) on an Acer C720 for about a year, includng Virtualbox. Somewhere in the last few weeks, Virtualbox no longer starts, instead advising me to run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup (I had installed virtualbox a year ago along with my first Crouton install - Ubuntu 12.04 - and it has worked well until this.) This script does not run (ends with an error condition.) I imagine google forced an update of chrome OS (I really wish I could control that behavior; updates via a metered tethering account is an expensive process!)
As my C720+Crouton+Ubuntu is a daily-use ("daily driver") laptop, I have little time for tinkering and experimentation, so I'm looking for a time-efficient way to recover virtualbox to operational. I recall when I first installed Virtualbox (a year ago) that I was able to find .deb file(s) that contained pre-built kernel headers and such needed to allow Virtualbox to properly operate, instead of going through the whole rebuild-the-kernel cycle.
It seems that going through kernel rebuild would be unnecessary if someone archived the needed kernel header files (as I found a year ago), as it seems generating the files once and making them available would be straightforward.
Any pointer/advice (short of rebuilding kernel and all that?)
Very tks!