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efleming969

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Registered: 2007-03-14

Posts: 39

Kernel Upgrade Broke VirtualBox

I just did an upgrade, with new kernel 2.6.23 and my virtualbox install is now giving me an error for the vboxdrv module.

when i try to modprobe vboxdrv it can't find it.  This was working fine before the upgrade.

Do I need to build VirtualBox from source?

hacosta

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From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: Kernel Upgrade Broke VirtualBox

virtualbox is built against kernel26 from current.. you can either build your own module, wait for 2.6.23 to go to current, or downgrade your kernel

matt_man22

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From: Boston, MA

Registered: 2007-04-28

Posts: 54

Re: Kernel Upgrade Broke VirtualBox

Try:

sudo /usr/bin/vbox_build_module

or as root if you don't use sudo.

efleming969

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Registered: 2007-03-14

Posts: 39

Re: Kernel Upgrade Broke VirtualBox

That's strange.  I thought I was running current.  pacman upgraded me to the new kernel, I didn't ask for it.

Doesn't "pacman -Syu" upgrade your system from current if you only have the core, extra, and community servers added in pacman.conf?

man_man22: some suggested that on IRC, but i do not have that script.  I'm running the standard OSE.

PS: A lot of these suggestions make me wonder if I really understand how Arch works.

Last edited by efleming969 (2007-10-22 12:13:35)

ise

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From: Karlsruhe / Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 404

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Re: Kernel Upgrade Broke VirtualBox

Doesn't "pacman -Syu" upgrade your system from current if you only have the core, extra, and community servers added in pacman.conf?
man_man22: some suggested that on IRC, but i do not have that script.  I'm running the standard OSE.

The new kernel 2.6.23.1-3 is in core (look here: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/13318/). So everything was alright with your update.
The package "virtualbox-ose-additions-modules" must be rebuild in the community repo. It is built against kernel-2.6.22, that's wrong. Rebuild it on your own or flag the package out-of-date.

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efleming969

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Registered: 2007-03-14

Posts: 39

Re: Kernel Upgrade Broke VirtualBox

ok, that make me feel better.  the package is already marked out of date.

i suppose, for an app as mission critical as virtualbox is to me (need for work), i need to pay more attention to upgrading my kernel at least with archlinux (there is not a way to simply revert back to a different kernel, like in debian).

thanks for the input.

KimTjik

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-08-22

Posts: 715

Re: Kernel Upgrade Broke VirtualBox

... (there is not a way to simply revert back to a different kernel, like in debian)

That depends on the meaning of "simple". If you don't erase cached pacman packages you can always simply rollback to a previously installed kernel; you find cached packages at "var/cache/pacman/pkg".

If you cd to that directory you could simply "ls kernel*", to see what previous kernel package you have. After that you could rollback by "pacman -U kernel[...correct version number here...]".

Complicated or simple?

efleming969

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Registered: 2007-03-14

Posts: 39

Re: Kernel Upgrade Broke VirtualBox

KimTjik,

Simple! once you know how to do it.  I love learning new things in Linux :-)

Thanks alot!

BTW,  I think debian's way is more simple since you can choose at grub boot, but then you have to manually clean the mess left over time.