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freieschaf

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Registered: 2010-11-30

Posts: 18

[SOLVED] VirtualBox not working correctly

Hello,

I am not really sure what happened to my working installation of VirtualBox after last upgrade to kernel 3.0. It was a 3.2.12 version, but it did not get updated to version 4.1.2 along with the system upgrade.

So the old version is still installed and I can execute it; it will open normally but will not run any of my guest systems because vboxdrv module cannot be loaded:

# modprobe vboxdrv
FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.

And officially it is not installed:

# pacman -Q virtualbox
error: package "virtualbox" was not found

But, as its files actually are on my system, I get an error if I try to specifically update package virtualbox:

# pacman -S virtualbox
resolviendo dependencias...
verificando conflictos...

Objetivos (2): libvncserver-0.9.8.1-1  virtualbox-4.1.4-2

Tamaño total de descarga:   0,00 MB
Tamaño total instalado:   75,89 MB

¿Continuar con la instalación? [S/n] s
(2/2) verificando la integridad de los paquetes                                                                                          [###################################################################################] 100%
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error: error al realizar la transacción (archivos en conflicto)
virtualbox: /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg existe en el sistema de archivos
virtualbox: /lib/udev/rules.d/10-vboxdrv.rules existe en el sistema de archivos
virtualbox: /usr/bin/VBoxHeadless existe en el sistema de archivos
virtualbox: /usr/bin/VBoxManage existe en el sistema de archivos
virtualbox: /usr/bin/VBoxSDL existe en el sistema de archivos
virtualbox: /usr/bin/VBoxTunctl existe en el sistema de archivos
virtualbox: /usr/bin/VirtualBox existe en el sistema de archivos
virtualbox: /usr/share/pixmaps/VBox.png existe en el sistema de archivos
Ocurrieron errores, no se actualizaron paquetes

(Sorry, my system uses Spanish language; it basically says that packages weren't updated because that list of files already exists on my filesystem)

I saw in many other threads that a common mistake is not to have recompiled vboxdrv module running rc.d setup vboxdrv; tried that but it apparently fails and suggests to look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong. Ask me if you need to see that log.

Also, I have linux-headers and linux-api-headers installed and updated.

Any hint on how to solve this is appreciated:)

Cheers

Last edited by freieschaf (2011-10-20 08:00:47)

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] VirtualBox not working correctly

You can try https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56373 but first you should read pacman log and see if you did remove virtualbox or did it disappear.

freieschaf

Member

Registered: 2010-11-30

Posts: 18

Re: [SOLVED] VirtualBox not working correctly

Oh, thank you. I thought deleting those files would delete the whole previous installation (along with guest systems), but after deletion, installed version 4.1.2 via pacman and it is working with my old guests now.