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stefseel

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Registered: 2012-07-25

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Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'

I just did a system upgrade. Now the vboxdrv module from package virtualbox-host-modules cannot be loaded any more.

# grep vboxdrv /var/log/errors.log
Jul 19 14:25:16 localhost systemd-modules-load[246]: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'

Also a manual modprobe doesn't work.

# modprobe vboxdrv
modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.

Kernel version is 3.15.5-2-ARCH

Package virtualbox-host-modules 4.3.14-1 is installed, vboxdrv driver is there in extramodules:

# ls -al /lib/modules/extramodules-3.15-ARCH/vboxdrv.ko.gz 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143082 Jul 16 22:48 /lib/modules/extramodules-3.15-ARCH/vboxdrv.ko.gz

Any hints?

ninian

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Registered: 2008-02-24

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Re: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'

I had that problem on one of my (32-bit) systems today; solved by executing:

# depmod -a

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'

You have to reboot after installing a new kernel.

ninian

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Re: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'

You have to reboot after installing a new kernel.

Yes indeed, but I had already done that - twice - and still had to manually run the depmod.

stefseel

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Registered: 2012-07-25

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Re: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'

I had that problem on one of my (32-bit) systems today; solved by executing:

# depmod -a

Indeed, that helped, thanks a lot

PS: I rebooted the system after system upgrade (in fact twice).

ninian

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Re: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'

Good - never had this problem after an upgrade before.

karol

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Re: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'

Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40495

I'll edit the report to indicate that it's happening with the host modules as well as the guest modules.

stefseel, are you on a 32-bit system as well?

Last edited by Scimmia (2014-07-19 18:30:53)

techno-geek

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Registered: 2010-05-03

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Re: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'

This happened to me on x86_64 when upgrading to 3.14.13-1-lts. The depmod mentioned above fixed it. Thanks!

cristu

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Registered: 2013-08-03

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Re: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'

Doesn't work with # depmod -a in my case

root@bonanza cristu]# uname -a
Linux bonanza 3.15.7-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 28 20:25:42 CEST 2014 i686 GNU/Linux

[root@bonanza cristu]# systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service 
● systemd-modules-load.service - Load Kernel Modules
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-modules-load.service; static)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2014-07-29 08:58:14 EEST; 2min 6s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-modules-load.service(8)
           man:modules-load.d(5)
  Process: 120 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 120 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jul 29 08:58:14 bonanza systemd-modules-load[120]: Failed to insert 'vboxdrv': Exec format error
Jul 29 08:58:14 bonanza systemd-modules-load[120]: Failed to insert 'vboxnetflt': Exec format error
Jul 29 08:58:14 bonanza systemd-modules-load[120]: Failed to insert 'vboxnetadp': Exec format error
Jul 29 08:58:14 bonanza systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: main process exited, code=exited, ...ILURE
Jul 29 08:58:14 bonanza systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
Jul 29 08:58:14 bonanza systemd[1]: Unit systemd-modules-load.service entered failed state.
Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is incomplete or unavailable.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.

Scimmia

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Re: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'

Exec format error is a different problem. Seems 3.15.7 is a binary module breaker and the modules haven't been rebuilt for it.

Mythoranium

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Registered: 2011-11-30

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Re: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'

I have the same problem — after updating system (including the kernel to 3.15.7), loading of both vboxdrv and nvidia modules failed with "exec format error".
I was able to fix the nvidia module by temporarily enabling the testing repository and updating the nvidia driver, but for virtualbox-host-modules there is no newer version in testing repository.

tomk

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Re: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'

That's because it's in community-testing, since virtualbox is a community package.

Trilby

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Re: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'

Crossreference to the solved thread on the separate 'exec format error'.

Cristu, please try that solution and continue that discussion there if it doesn't work.

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cristu

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Re: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'

Thanks Trilby
I have managed the issue by updating virtualbox-host-modules

[cristu@bonanza ~]$ pacman -Qs virtualbox-host-modules 
local/virtualbox-host-modules 4.3.14-3
    Host kernel modules for VirtualBox