Virtualbox module won't compile?

glenn69 · 2011-07-18 17:32:34

I upgraded Virtualbox from 4.0.10 to 4.0.12 and I am receiving an error when trying to compile the module by /etc/rc.d/vboxdrv setup.

The contents of /var/log/vbox-install.log are :

make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 -C /lib/modules/2.6.39-ARCH/build SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.0 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 modules
test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || (                \
echo;                                                           \
echo "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.";               \
echo "         include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\
echo "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.";  \
echo;                                                           \
/bin/false)
mkdir -p /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_versions ; rm -f /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_versions/*
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/tmp/vbox.0
  gcc -Wp,-MD,/tmp/vbox.0/linux/.SUPDrv-linux.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.1/include -I/usr/src/linux-2.6.39-ARCH/arch/x86/include -Iinclude  -include include/generated/autoconf.h -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -O2 -m32 -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=generic -maccumulate-outgoing-args -Wa,-mtune=generic32 -ffreestanding -fstack-protector -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -Wframe-larger-than=1024 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -pg -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -I/lib/modules/2.6.39-ARCH/build/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DRT_OS_LINUX -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBOX -DRT_WITH_VBOX -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING -DCONFIG_VBOXDRV_AS_MISC -DRT_ARCH_X86 -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS  -DMODULE  -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(SUPDrv_linux)"  -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(vboxdrv)" -c -o /tmp/vbox.0/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o /tmp/vbox.0/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c
In file included from /tmp/vbox.0/include/VBox/types.h:34:0,
                 from /tmp/vbox.0/linux/../SUPDrvInternal.h:39,
                 from /tmp/vbox.0/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:37:
/tmp/vbox.0/include/iprt/types.h:87:30: fatal error: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vbox.0/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vbox.0] Error 2
make: *** [vboxdrv] Error 2

Where do I start to repair this?

Thank You

Last edited by glenn69 (2011-07-18 17:57:37)

wonder · 2011-07-18 17:55:26

3.0.12? this version is way to old to support 2.6.39 kernel

glenn69 · 2011-07-18 17:57:19

Sorry typo...should read from 4.0.10 to 4.0.12. I will edit the original post.

Thanks

glenn69 · 2011-07-18 18:00:49

I tried downgrading back to Virtualbox 4.0.10 and the error remains, however that version was working fine prior to the upgrade attempt.

wonder · 2011-07-18 18:02:34

yes, try to reinstall kernel26-headers

glenn69 · 2011-07-18 18:24:20

Re-installing the headers did not help.

Last edited by glenn69 (2011-07-18 18:26:14)

glenn69 · 2011-07-18 18:28:29

There was aproblem with glibc versions after 2.12.1-2 breaking virtualbox. I tried downgrading glibc, but binutils and gcc-libs depend upon it. gcc depends upon gcc-libs...and so on.

glenn69 · 2011-07-18 19:54:33

I downgraded to glibc 2.12.1-2 and am still having the same problem. That was not a fix.

graysky · 2011-07-18 19:57:07

Any relationship to post #340 from this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 73#p962073

glenn69 · 2011-07-18 20:10:00

I had a breakthrough, although I'm not sure what it means...other than Virtualbox now runs again.

Here's what I did:

downgraded glibc to 2.12.1-2 ( and any other files with dependencies. gcc, gcc-libs, binutils )

still had no luck compiling module

then I downgraded back to Virtualbox 4.0.10 again with the downgraded glibc

..and it worked. Hopefully someone can make some sense of it for the rest of us.

Summation: Virtualbox 4.0.12 did not compile with glibc at 2.12.1-2 or at its most current version
Virtualbox 4.0.10 would not compile with a current version of glibc ( >2.12.1-2)
..but VB 4.0.10 did compile fine with glibc downgraded to 2.12.1-2

Last edited by glenn69 (2011-07-18 20:13:00)

graysky · 2011-07-18 23:25:14

...and this is only for i686?

wonder · 2011-07-19 06:44:18

@glenn69 you are way of. The current modules compile fine with latest gcc/glibc. There is some inconsistency in your system related to kernel headers.

linux/autoconf.h is from an old kernel but i don't get it why is using this include instead of include/generated/autoconf.h

did you mess with /usr/src/linux-2.6.39-ARCH ?

stryder · 2011-07-20 06:33:28

I am getting a similar error. I just installed a fresh arch32 (updated) in virtualbox (4.04, OSX) and running the supplied virtualbox guest additions installer threw up the error. I haven't tried with the latest iso from community (4.08).

stryder · 2011-07-20 08:22:35

Just for info, the installation was OK for kernel26-lts. I had problems with the vboxvideo driver so in the end I opted to just use pacman -S virtualbox-archlinux-additions. All is fine.

graysky · 2011-07-20 08:38:17

stryder wrote:

... I had problems with the vboxvideo driver so in the end I opted to just use pacman -S virtualbox-archlinux-additions. All is fine.

@stryder - that IS the preferred method. I don't understand why you would try to circumvent pacman in the first place.

stryder · 2011-07-20 10:12:47

@graysky - yeah. Have been using the virtualbox iso for a long long time - never had problems till now. And the provided additions are only for kernel26 and not kernel26-lts. So it is not a complete solution.

glenn69 · 2011-07-20 16:40:32

wonder wrote:

@glenn69 you are way of. The current modules compile fine with latest gcc/glibc. There is some inconsistency in your system related to kernel headers.
linux/autoconf.h is from an old kernel but i don't get it why is using this include instead of include/generated/autoconf.h
did you mess with /usr/src/linux-2.6.39-ARCH ?

I have not made any changes. Any suggestions of how I could find out where the inconsistency is?

Thank you

steff · 2011-10-14 20:02:00

Same problem here, tried creating a symlink linux/autonf.h --> ../generated/autoconf.h with no results. Any ideas?

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