Same problem, followed the same steps. I wish mine would have 'fixed itself'.
Some background. I upgraded from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04, no problems with VBox. Then upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10. Now I get the following error:
"
Failed to create VirtualBox COM object."
Other postings say just re-install. I tried to do a reinstall through aptitude, but I cleaned out the apt cache prior to the upgrade. So, now I'm trying to update my packages and re-install, but I can't due to the "signatures were invalid: NODATA 2" error.
I thought about pulling down the .deb and running it manually. Will that screw up my current vm?
Here's what I've done...
source.list:
deb
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian intrepid non-free
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sudo apt-key list:
pub 1024D/6DFBCBAE 2008-07-14
uid Sun Microsystems, Inc. (xVM VirtualBox archive signing key) <info@virtualbox.org>
sub 2048g/78A86EAF 2008-07-14
I've updated without vbox in the source list and no key. Added vbox back to the source.list, re-ran the key setup just as posted:
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sudo wget -q --no-cache http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
I've updated with apt-get and aptitude, both give the same error. Here's some output from aptitude:
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sudo aptitude update
Get:1 http://download.virtualbox.org intrepid Release.gpg [197B]
Ign http://download.virtualbox.org intrepid/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release.gpg
Get:2 http://ubuntu.mirror.ac.za intrepid Release.gpg [189B]
Get:3 http://download.virtualbox.org intrepid Release [3456B]
Ign http://download.virtualbox.org intrepid Release
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://download.virtualbox.org intrepid/non-free Packages
Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release [27.6kB]
Ign http://ubuntu.mirror.ac.za intrepid/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Packages
Ign http://ubuntu.mirror.ac.za intrepid/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Sources
Ign http://ubuntu.mirror.ac.za intrepid/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Packages
Ign http://ubuntu.mirror.ac.za intrepid/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Sources
<snip>
Fetched 577B in 1min26s (7B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://download.virtualbox.org intrepid Release: The following signatures were invalid: NODATA 2
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
You say it's always user error.
Please tell me what I've done wrong.