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kazimir

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Registered: 2012-01-20

Posts: 79

[solved] ABI version mismatch cause X to fail in virtualbox

Hello all,

Due to a failing SSD drive I made a ddrescue image of my whole arch installation, then converted to a vdi file hoping to be able to run the system in virtualbox on another computer under debian jessie.

After a little fiddling with EFI in virtualbox, I managed to boot the system but failed to start the GUI. A quick pacman session to install the missing guest modules later and I went from a missing vboxvideo to an ABI version mismatch causing Xorg to fail.

Xorg.0.log shows:

[    12.466] (II) Module vboxvideo: vendor="Oracle Corporation"
[    12.466] 	compiled for 1.17.4, module version = 1.0.1
[    12.466] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    12.466] 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 19.0
[    12.466] (EE) module ABI major version (19) doesn't match the server's version (20)
[    12.466] (II) UnloadModule: "vboxvideo"
[    12.466] (II) Unloading vboxvideo
[    12.466] (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module requirement mismatch, 0)

additional errors:

[    12.475] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
[    12.475] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
[    12.485] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[    12.485] (EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file.
[    12.554] (EE) 
[    12.554] (EE) no screens found(EE) 
[    12.554] (EE) 
[    12.554] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[    12.554] (EE) 
[    12.562] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

I tried reinstalling from repo-ck and rebuilding virtualbox-ck-guest-modules from AUR but the issue remains. Did I miss something ? Where can I find information to fix this ?

Last edited by kazimir (2015-12-20 18:07:13)

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: [solved] ABI version mismatch cause X to fail in virtualbox

That error isn't about the vboxvideo kernelmodule , but the xorg vboxvideo module.

What version is your virtualbox-guest-utils package ?

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2015-12-19 13:30:45)

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semeion

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2008-10-20

Posts: 65

Re: [solved] ABI version mismatch cause X to fail in virtualbox

yeah, i can confirm the problem.

After this last -Syu (yesterday) i am getting same errors here.

I can start Xorg after installing xf86-video-vesa driver on guest, but without vboxvideo support. Can´t change resolution, etc...

I had rebuild the modules and the problem persist. I am using stock kernel in both host and guest.

I am looking for a solution...

kazimir

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Registered: 2012-01-20

Posts: 79

Re: [solved] ABI version mismatch cause X to fail in virtualbox

The installed virtualbox-guest-utils version is the current one from the community repository so  5.0.10-3.

I installed xf86-video-vesa in the guest but X still fails to start with this new error:

(EE) VESA(0): V_BIOS address 0x0 out of range

Last edited by kazimir (2015-12-19 14:32:34)

matmoul

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Registered: 2015-08-31

Posts: 21

Re: [solved] ABI version mismatch cause X to fail in virtualbox

For a temporary solution :
Downgrading virtualbox-guest-utils to 5.0.10-2 seem to work.

semeion

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2008-10-20

Posts: 65

Re: [solved] ABI version mismatch cause X to fail in virtualbox

Maybe should be open a bug report?

kwash

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Registered: 2015-12-18

Posts: 16

Re: [solved] ABI version mismatch cause X to fail in virtualbox

I'm having exactly this same problem here.

I can confirm that downgrading virtualbox-guest-utils to 5.0.10-2 temporarily solves the problem as suggested by matmoul.

Last edited by kwash (2015-12-19 21:37:40)

kwash

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Registered: 2015-12-18

Posts: 16

Re: [solved] ABI version mismatch cause X to fail in virtualbox

@semeion: this is already a known bug.

A fix will be included for VirtualBox 5.0.12 build: (look at latest comments)
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45748

Last edited by kwash (2015-12-19 22:02:41)

kwash

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Registered: 2015-12-18

Posts: 16

Re: [solved] ABI version mismatch cause X to fail in virtualbox

virtualbox-guest-utils 5.0.12-1 released and this problem seems fixed.

Working normal for me now.

kazimir

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Registered: 2012-01-20

Posts: 79

Re: [solved] ABI version mismatch cause X to fail in virtualbox

5.0.12-1 works for me too. Marking the thread as solved.

semeion

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2008-10-20

Posts: 65

Re: [solved] ABI version mismatch cause X to fail in virtualbox

Yes, it was fixed with 5.0.12-1.

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