virtualbox-ose 3.0.6 dfsg-1ubuntu1 i386 fail to install or upgrade post-installation error 3

Please run
sudo dkms remove -m vboxdrv -v 3.0.6 --all
sudo dkms remove -m vboxnetflt -v 3.0.6 --all
sudo dkms remove -m vboxnetadp -v 3.0.6 --all

and try to reinstall virtualbox-ose afterwards.

thank you for the workaround, works fine for me!

Yes, thanks a lot Felix! This workaround works for me as well.

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-ose - 3.0.8-dfsg-1ubuntu1

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virtualbox-ose (3.0.8-dfsg-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable (LP: #444812), remaining changes:
    - Enable DKMS support on virtualbox host and guest modules (LP: #267097)
      - Drop virtualbox-ose{-guest,}-modules-* package templates
      - Recommend *-source instead of *-modules packages
      - Replace error messages related to missing/mismatched
        kernel module accordingly
    - Autoload kernel module
      - LOAD_VBOXDRV_MODULE=1 in virtualbox-ose.default
    - Disable update action
      - patches/u01-disable-update-action.dpatch
    - Virtualbox should go in Accessories, not in System tools (LP: #288590)
      - virtualbox-ose-qt.files/virtualbox-ose.desktop
    - Add apport hook
      - virtualbox-ose.files/source_virtualbox-ose.py
      - virtualbox-ose.install
    - Add launchpad integration
      - control
      - lpi-bug.xpm
      - patches/u02-lp-integration.dpatch
  * Try to remove existing dkms modules before adding the new modules
    (LP: #434503)
    - debian/virtualbox-ose-source.postinst
    - debian/virtualbox-ose-guest-source.postinst
  * Don't fail if dkms modules have already been removed
    - debian/virtualbox-ose-source.prerm
    - debian/virtualbox-ose-guest-source.prerm

virtualbox-ose (3.0.8-dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=high

  [ Felix Geyer ]
  * New Upstream Version
    - Fixes security vulnerability in VBoxNetAdpCtl (SunSolve #268188)
  * Conflict with upstream proprietary packages
  * Install vboxapi python module, closes: #549542
  * Use an own cleaned-up virtualbox-ose init script instead of
    patching the upstream script
  * Only restart virtualbox-ose after upgrade if it's not running; do not
    restart virtualbox-ose-guest-utils at all
  * Call notify-reboot-required after guest utils upgrade
  * Remove vboxusers group as it's not needed anymore
  * Don't statically link VBoxClient with libstdc++
    - Add patch 22-no-static-libstdcpp.dpatch from Fedora
  * Pass more build options through the command line, which allows us to drop
    02-config-kmk.dpatch, 03-localconf-kmk.dpatch and
    14-disable-registration-request.dpatch
  * No longer reload udev rules in postinst as they are reloaded automatically
  * Add lintian overrides for non-PIC code in /usr/lib/virtualbox/*.so

  [ Michael Meskes ]
  * Made debug package also depend on guest utilities package.
  * Added option to close down all active VMs from init script.

 -- Felix Geyer <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:06:00 +0200