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teetee1

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Registered: 2013-08-24

Posts: 13

Could not load vboxvideo on kernel 4.9.11 with vbox 5.1.14

I just did a system upgrade on a virtualbox guest running Arch linux. After rebooting and new kernel is in effect, I upgraded the virtualbox packages with pacman so they are compiled against the new kernel.

[root@node00 ~]# pacman -Qs virtualbox
local/virtualbox-guest-dkms 5.1.14-1
    VirtualBox Guest kernel modules sources
local/virtualbox-guest-utils 5.1.14-1
    VirtualBox Guest userspace utilities

[root@node00 ~]# ls -l /usr/src/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 17 09:13 vboxguest-5.1.14_OSE

[root@node00 ~]# ls -l /lib/modules/4.9.11-1-ARCH/kernel/misc
total 596
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 449072 Feb 24 10:41 vboxguest.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  72408 Feb 24 10:41 vboxsf.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  83456 Feb 24 10:41 vboxvideo.ko

[root@node00 ~]# modprobe -v vboxvideo
insmod /lib/modules/4.9.11-1-ARCH/kernel/misc/vboxvideo.ko 
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxvideo': Invalid argument

Both vboxsf and vboxguest were loaded successfully.

Because of this loading issue, I was not able to start X:

[root@node00 ~]# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
[    18.566] Current Operating System: Linux node00 4.9.11-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Feb 19 13:45:52 UTC 2017 x86_64
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[    18.572] (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
[    18.572] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
[    18.572] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
[    18.587] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[    18.588] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[    18.588] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[    18.589] (EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file.
[    18.589] (EE) 
[    18.589] (EE) no screens found(EE) 
[    18.589] (EE) 
[    18.590] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[    18.590] (EE) 
[    18.602] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

Any input is greatly appreciated.

Last edited by teetee1 (2017-02-24 16:55:58)

teetee1

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Registered: 2013-08-24

Posts: 13

Re: Could not load vboxvideo on kernel 4.9.11 with vbox 5.1.14

A follow-up with 4.10.10-1-ARCH kernel and vbox-guest-dkms/utils 5.1.18

# modprobe vboxvideo
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxvideo': Invalid argument


# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
[    13.416] Current Operating System: Linux node00 4.10.10-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 12 18:50:28 CEST 2017 x86_64
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[    13.450] (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
[    13.452] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
[    13.474] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[    13.474] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[    13.474] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[    13.770] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
[    14.595] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/0003:80EE:0021.0001/input/input2/event1"