On 08/02/21 21:39, n952162 wrote: > On 2/8/21 9:17 PM, n952162 wrote: >> VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update >> >> You can start it without error but it just goes away. The last thing in >> the strace is a clone. >> >> Anybody else seen this problem or know of a fix? >> >> VBoxClient has behaved like this before, if memory serves. Either I've >> just forgotten what the problem was, or something new has popped up. >> >> > > I just saw that my virtualbox-modules emerge failed. > > Probably related to this: > > $ uname -a > Linux txm0 *4.19.72-gentoo* #7 SMP Tue Jun 9 19:51:52 CEST 2020 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > $ lt /usr/src/ > total 16 > drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Feb 3 02:14 linux-5.4.92-gentoo > drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Dec 30 19:17 linux-5.4.80-gentoo-r1 > drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dec 12 21:55 linux-4.19.72-gentoo > drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Oct 20 23:50 linux-5.4.72-gentoo > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 8 2019 linux -> linux-*4.19.72-gentoo* > > I'm not sure why I have all these newer versions of the kernel ... > > What should I be at? For an amd64... > > Oh man... > > $ eselect kernel list > Available kernel symlink targets: > [1] linux-5.4.72-gentoo > [2] linux-5.4.80-gentoo-r1 > [3] linux-5.4.92-gentoo > > Was there an adminstrative step that I missed there? > > When you do a sync, it pulls down the latest version of kernel source. I don't do it all the time, but you really ought to upgrade to 5.4.92.
What I do (can't remember exactly because my live system hasn't been upgraded since forever :-) is copy .config from the old kernel to the new, and then is it "make oldconfig"? Either way, it configures the new kernel using the old config file so all my local-specific stuff is kept. Then just set it up in grub/whatever, make sure it works, and switch over to it. ALWAYS make sure your kernel is up-to-date before a depclean, because this is what happens ... (I *THINK* your old config will still be left lying around - as a locally modified file it shouldn't be cleaned up ...) Cheers, Wol
