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momo.reina

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Registered: 2012-02-23

Posts: 66

virtualbox issues (archlinux guest)

the virtual box additions were running fine (installed through pacman) until i did a sync with repos this morning.

now when i boot up arch, it seems that the virtualbox additions (full-screen, etc) cannot be loaded.

from my boot log

Wed Feb 29 08:56:20 2012: :: Triggering UDev uevents    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Wed Feb 29 08:56:20 2012: :: Loading User-specified Modules    [BUSY] ERROR: could not insert 'vboxguest': Exec format error
Wed Feb 29 08:56:20 2012: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxsf': Exec format error
Wed Feb 29 08:56:20 2012: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxvideo': Exec format error
Wed Feb 29 08:56:20 2012:    [FAIL] 
Wed Feb 29 08:56:20 2012: :: Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed    [BUSY]    [DONE] 
Wed Feb 29 08:56:20 2012: :: Bringing up loopback interface    [BUSY]    [DONE] 

same error when i run

modprobe -a vboxguest vboxsf vboxvideo 

ewaller

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Re: virtualbox issues (archlinux guest)

Just a sanity check, how did  you perform that sync.
Also, you might try pacman -Syu againm just in case you had a server with some stale data.

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momo.reina

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Registered: 2012-02-23

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Re: virtualbox issues (archlinux guest)

performed it with

 pacman -Syu 

did another sync just now, no luck.... funny thing is I've had this exact experience with Chakra, happened just a week ago. After upgrading kde vbox additions stopped working....

this is the pacman log file

 [2012-02-29 06:07] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2012-02-29 06:07] synchronizing package lists
[2012-02-29 06:08] starting full system upgrade
[2012-02-29 06:09] upgraded gtk-update-icon-cache (2.24.10-2 -> 2.24.10-3)
[2012-02-29 06:09] upgraded gtk2 (2.24.10-2 -> 2.24.10-3)
[2012-02-29 06:09] upgraded linux-firmware (20120205-1 -> 20120227-1)
[2012-02-29 06:09] upgraded virtualbox-archlinux-modules (4.1.8-3 -> 4.1.8-4)

after this upgrade today virtualbox additions just broke

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: virtualbox issues (archlinux guest)

you have community-testing enabled without testing. virtualbox-archlinux-modules  4.1.8-4 had been recompiled against kernel from testing

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momo.reina

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Registered: 2012-02-23

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Re: virtualbox issues (archlinux guest)

so just downgrade to 4.1.8-3?

wonder

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Re: virtualbox issues (archlinux guest)

so just downgrade to 4.1.8-3?

kinda useless now that everything was moved in core/community. Just do pacman -Syu

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bmikell2000

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Registered: 2012-02-29

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Re: virtualbox issues (archlinux guest)

Awesome, so I broke my system trying to downgrade all the testing packages after I finally figured out that was why the 4.1.8-3 additions weren't working and had to do a reinstall sans testing repo and vbox upgrades to compatibility the next day... sigh.

momo.reina

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Registered: 2012-02-23

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Re: virtualbox issues (archlinux guest)

can we mark as solved?

bmikell2000

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Registered: 2012-02-29

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Re: virtualbox issues (archlinux guest)

nope - I did a clone disk - and then a pacman -Syu - with only the new linux, linux headers, and virtualbox-modules - the packages won't work together - same error as the original post.

bmikell2000

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Registered: 2012-02-29

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Re: virtualbox issues (archlinux guest)

The maintainers released 4.1.8-5 in testing on 3/1/12 - I'll try that see what happens