Stopped working on updated Ubuntu 8.04

[dror]

A few weeks ago I did a routine update of Ubuntu 8.04 and now VirtualBox is not working. When I stared it it told me to run

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/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

When I do, I get

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Makefile:130: Warning: using /usr/src/linux as the source directory of your Linux kernel. If this is not correct, specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again.
make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.5 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.5 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-18'
test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || (            \
        echo;                                                           \
        echo "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.";               \
        echo "         include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";      \
        echo "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.";  \
        echo;                                                           \
        /bin/false)

  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.
         include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.
         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.

mkdir -p /tmp/vbox.5/.tmp_versions ; rm -f /tmp/vbox.5/.tmp_versions/*

  WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-18/Module.symvers
           is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/tmp/vbox.5
/tmp/vbox.5/Makefile:130: Warning: using /usr/src/linux as the source directory of your Linux kernel. If this is not correct, specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again.
  gcc -Wp,-MD,/tmp/vbox.5/linux/.SUPDrv-linux.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2.3/include -D__KERNEL__  -Iinclude  -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -O2  -m64 -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -funit-at-a-time -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -maccumulate-outgoing-args   -fomit-frame-pointer  -fno-stack-protector -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign   -I/usr/src/linux/include -I/tmp/vbox.5/ -I/tmp/vbox.5/include -I/tmp/vbox.5/r0drv/linux -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DRT_OS_LINUX -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBOX -DRT_WITH_VBOX -DCONFIG_VBOXDRV_AS_MISC -DRT_ARCH_X86 -DUSE_NEW_OS_INTERFACE_FOR_MM   -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(SUPDrv_linux)"  -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(vboxdrv)" -c -o /tmp/vbox.5/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o /tmp/vbox.5/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c
cc1: error: include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /tmp/vbox.5/include/VBox/types.h:34,
                 from /tmp/vbox.5/SUPDRV.h:39,
                 from /tmp/vbox.5/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:35:
/tmp/vbox.5/include/iprt/types.h:87:30: error: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
In file included from include/linux/posix_types.h:47,
                 from include/linux/types.h:11,
                 from /tmp/vbox.5/include/iprt/types.h:88,
                 from /tmp/vbox.5/include/VBox/types.h:34,
                 from /tmp/vbox.5/SUPDRV.h:39,
                 from /tmp/vbox.5/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:35:
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2.3/include/asm/posix_types.h:13:22: error: features.h: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2.3/include/asm/posix_types.h:14:35: error: no include path in which to search for asm/posix_types.h
In file included from /tmp/vbox.5/include/iprt/types.h:88,
                 from /tmp/vbox.5/include/VBox/types.h:34,
                 from /tmp/vbox.5/SUPDRV.h:39,
                 from /tmp/vbox.5/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:35:
include/linux/types.h:12:23: error: asm/types.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /tmp/vbox.5/include/iprt/types.h:88,
                 from /tmp/vbox.5/include/VBox/types.h:34,
...

If I try and run
make oldconfig && make prepare
I get

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make[1]: *** No rule to make target `arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c', needed by `arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s'.  Stop.
make: *** [prepare0] Error 2

I'm using the latest headers: linux-headers-2.6.24-18

[Sasquatch]

It seems that you either have a faulty linux-headers package, or none at all. Please check if you have the linux-headers-generic package (or whatever architecture you run (server, i386 etc.). Note that it won't run on the Xen kernel, but I doubt you are running that one.