[SRU] package virtualbox-ext-pack 5.0.36-0ubuntu1.16.04.2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 143

please don't use virtualbox 5.0.38

Please use my ppa:costamagnagianfranco/locutusofborg-ppa.
I tested the solution and it works

Hello alperyilmaz, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Hello alperyilmaz, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-ext-pack into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ext-pack/5.0.40-0ubuntu1.16.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Hello alperyilmaz, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-guest-additions-iso into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/5.0.40-0ubuntu1.16.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

I would like to update also virtualbox 5.1 on yakkety/zesty, changelog is following:

 VirtualBox 5.1.22 (released 2017-04-28)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    VMM: fixed VERR_IEM_INSTR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED Guru Meditation under certain conditions (5.1 regression; mostly Mac OS X hosts; bugs #15693, #15801, #16274, #16569, #16663)
    VMM: fixed software virtualization on Solaris hosts (5.1.20 regression)
    Storage: fixed a potential hang under rare circumstances (bug #16677)
    Storage: fixed a potential crash under rare circumstances (asynchronous I/O disabled or during maintenance file operations like merging snapshots)
    Linux hosts: make the ALSA backend work again as well as loading the GL libraries on certain hosts (5.1.20 regression; bugs #16667, #16693)
    Linux Additions: fixed mount.vboxsf symlink problem (5.1.20 regression; bug #16670)

VirtualBox 5.1.20 (released 2017-04-18)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    GUI: don't check if the Extension Pack is up-to-date if the user is about to install a new Extension Pack (bug #16317)
    GUI: fixed a possible crash when switching a multi-monitor VM into full-screen or seamless mode
    GUI: fixed non-literal shortcuts if the keyboard is not captured (5.1.10 regression; Windows hosts only)
    GUI: several mini-toolbar fixes in full-screen / seamless mode (X11 hosts only)
    GUI: don't crash on restoring defaults in the appliance import dialog
    Windows Additions: another fix for automatic logins for Windows Vista and newer (bug #15904)
    ICH9: fix for Windows guests with a huge amount (>64G) of guest memory
    BIOS: fixed El Torito hard disk emulation geometry calculation (thanks Dwight Engen)

VirtualBox 5.1.18 (released 2017-03-15)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    Shared Folders: fixed case insensitive filename access (5.1.16 regression; Windows guests only; bug #16549)
    Shared Folders: fixed access to long pathes (5.1.16 regression; Windows guests only; bugs #14651, #16564)
    API: fixed snapshot handling of medium attachments and PCI device attachments (bug #16545)
    API: make 32-bit Windows guests in raw mode boot again if the ICH9 chipset is used (5.1.16 regression)
    VBoxBugReport: fixed VM log collection issue
    Linux hosts: fixed autostart service script (bug #14955)
    Windows Additions: fixed automatic logins for Windows Vista and newer (5.1.4 regression; bug #15904)

VirtualBox 5.1.16 (released 2017-03-08)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    VMM: don't access the MSR_IA32_SMM_MONITOR_CTL MSR if dual-monitor treatment is not available (KVM workaround, bug #14965)
    VMM: another fix for handling certain MSRs on ancient CPUs without VT-x support for MSR bitmaps
    VMM: fixed VERR_SSM_LOAD_CPUID_MISMATCH errors when restoring a saved state with SMP guests on hosts without the CPUID/HTT bit set (bug #16428)
    VMM: fixed a bug in call gate emulation
    VMM: FWAIT instruction fix
    VMM: fixed a sporadic guest hang under certain conditions
    GUI: hide the mini-toolb...

Testing performed:
install virtualbox on my xenial machine
every VM started up correctly (windows xp, windows 8.1 and so on).

installed a yakkety VM
installed a zesty VM

enabled 3d acceleration and installed virtualbox, virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-guest-dkmx and virtualbox-guest-x11.
Inside the VM virtualbox started correctly, and new VM creation was working too.

Hello alperyilmaz, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox into zesty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/5.1.22-dfsg-0ubuntu1.17.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

An upload of virtualbox-ext-pack to zesty-proposed has been rejected from the upload queue for the following reason: "Version number is newer than that in arful will cause upgrade issues. Perhaps: 5.1.22-2~ubuntu0.17.04.1".

An upload of virtualbox-guest-additions-iso to zesty-proposed has been rejected from the upload queue for the following reason: "Version number is newer than that in arful will cause upgrade issues.".

Hello alperyilmaz, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-ext-pack into zesty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ext-pack/5.1.22-2~17.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Hello alperyilmaz, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-guest-additions-iso into zesty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/5.1.22-1~17.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Zesty is good!
(same testing, clean VM, create and install virtualbox-{host, guest} packages

As a part of the Stable Release Updates quality process a search for Launchpad bug reports using the version of virtualbox-ext-pack from zesty-proposed was performed and bug 1688729 was found. Please investigate this bug report to ensure that a regression will not be created by this SRU. In the event that this is not a regression remove the "verification-failed" tag from this bug report and add the tag "bot-stop-nagging" to bug 1688729 (not this bug). Thanks!

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-guest-additions-iso - 5.0.40-0ubuntu1.16.04.1

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virtualbox-guest-additions-iso (5.0.40-0ubuntu1.16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Update to the latest minor release for xenial (LP: #1683965)
    - bring new fixes from Debian packaging (5.1.22)
      - Update copyright and watch files
      - Update get-orig-source.sh script

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:08:54 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-ext-pack - 5.0.40-0ubuntu1.16.04.1

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virtualbox-ext-pack (5.0.40-0ubuntu1.16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Update to the latest minor release for xenial (LP: #1683965)
    - bring new fixes from Debian packaging (5.1.22)
      - Add accept-license keyword (needed since 5.0.38)
      - Enforce the same virtualbox version being installed
      - Update translations
      - update copyright and watch files.

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Apr 2017 08:56:16 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.1

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virtualbox (5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Update to the latest minor release for xenial (LP: #1683965)
    - drop changeset_63850.patch: upstream

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Apr 2017 08:58:05 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 5.1.22-dfsg-0ubuntu1.17.04.1

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virtualbox (5.1.22-dfsg-0ubuntu1.17.04.1) zesty; urgency=medium

  * Update to the latest minor release for zesty (LP: #1683965)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Wed, 03 May 2017 17:04:02 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-ext-pack - 5.1.22-2~17.04.1

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virtualbox-ext-pack (5.1.22-2~17.04.1) zesty; urgency=medium

   * Update to the latest minor release for zesty (LP: #1683965)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Wed, 03 May 2017 17:05:00 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-guest-additions-iso - 5.1.22-1~17.04.1

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virtualbox-guest-additions-iso (5.1.22-1~17.04.1) zesty; urgency=medium

  * Update to the latest minor release for zesty (LP: #1683965)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Wed, 03 May 2017 17:05:12 +0200