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r1d3r

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From: Glendale, CA

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 2

VirtualBox not working after upgrade

Today after upgradeing my system i rebooted to the new kernel, and cannot start virtual machines anymore.

I tried with "sudo modprobe vboxdrv" but i get this message:
"WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/."

Is anyone else haveing this problem?

loafer

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From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: VirtualBox not working after upgrade

Try running this as root:

vbox_build_module

Also have a look at this:

http://www.archlinux.org/news/450/

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,653

Re: VirtualBox not working after upgrade

r1d3r,

Hello neighbor (I'm in Pasadena).

loafer is correct on rebuilding the vboxdrv module whenever you update the kernel.

The depreciation warning is really just a warning and may not be related to the Virtualbox issue -- it will show up whenever a module is inserted into the kernel.  I'm sure your system logs contain multiple copies of the warning from boot time.   

After you get Virtualbox running, take a look in /etc/moprobe.d/ and look for the offending files (the ones without .conf).  Check if they are redundant and either rename them or merge them with the redundant .conf files.

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troncoso

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Registered: 2008-08-28

Posts: 52

Re: VirtualBox not working after upgrade

The problem is that Arch now has libpng version 1.4 but VirtualBox uses version 1.2. After updating VirtualBox to the latest binary, this is what I get when I run it:
$ VirtualBox
VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/opt/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

loafer

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Re: VirtualBox not working after upgrade

How are you installing VirtualBox?

I use vitualbox_bin from the AUR.  You can edit the PKGBUILD re. the dependencies.  It works fine on i686 with libpng14

Last edited by loafer (2010-02-25 21:56:25)

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troncoso

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Re: VirtualBox not working after upgrade

I install this binary http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb … ux_x86.run.
By the way, I've managed to get it running by copying libpng12.so.0.40.0 from an old package to /usr/lib/ and creating a symlink to libpng12.so.0.

ngoonee

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Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,362

Re: VirtualBox not working after upgrade

How are you installing VirtualBox?

I use vitualbox_bin from the AUR.  You can edit the PKGBUILD re. the dependencies.  It works fine on i686 with libpng14

"works fine" except you can't go to 'preferences'. Read the AUR page comments.

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Re: VirtualBox not working after upgrade

I install this binary http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb … ux_x86.run.
By the way, I've managed to get it running by copying libpng12.so.0.40.0 from an old package to /usr/lib/ and creating a symlink to libpng12.so.0.

Ack, don't listen this this advice.  Never install a binary, use pacman to install it so it can be cleanly removed in the future.

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r1d3r

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From: Glendale, CA

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 2

Re: VirtualBox not working after upgrade

Thanks everyone for your suggestions.
I used the command "vbox_build_module" to rebuild the module and it works fine now!

BTW, i installed vbox from AUR.
isnt it just easier to have the module for the latest kernel available in the repos as an update?

Thanks again for your support.

n0kS

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Registered: 2009-10-19

Posts: 25

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Re: VirtualBox not working after upgrade

Hello, I had the same problem and here are the instructions for those who dislike AUR:

Download http://downloads.sourceforge.net/source … 40.tar.bz2
tar xvf <>
cd <>
./configure
make
sudo make install
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0

This worked for me perfectly.