Frank Mehnert wrote:
> On Friday 30 January 2009, Peter Schow wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:39:05PM -0800, Bill Shannon wrote:
>>> After installing VirtualBox on Linux (Ubuntu), do I need to reboot
>>> in order to have the kernel modules installed? I assume not.
>> That's my experience too; such a reboot should not be necesary.
>>
>>> I've installed and uninstalled several versions of VirtualBox to
>>> try to get DVD writing to work (see my other thread). Finally I
>>> needed to reboot in order to install other Ubuntu updates. When
>>> booting, I get messages about installing the vboxdrv and vboxnet
>>> kernel modules, but both appear to fail with "bad exit status 101".
>> The manual recommends a:
>>
>> # /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
>>
>> whenever your kernel is upgraded, which might have occurred during
>> one of your Ubuntu updates.
>
> As you error messages about a 'bad exit status 101' I assume you
> have installed the dkms package. Which output do you get when
> entering
>
> dkms status
>
> ? Also, as already mentioned, please check the file /var/log/vbox-install.log
> for errors.
I don't know what dkms is. "dkms status" reports:
vboxdrv, 2.1.2, 2.6.24-22-generic, i686: installed
vboxdrv, 2.1.2, 2.6.24-23-generic, i686: built
vboxnetflt, 2.1.2, 2.6.24-22-generic, i686: installed
vboxnetflt, 2.1.2, 2.6.24-23-generic, i686: built
Note that I rebooted again recently to install Ubuntu updates.
When I rebooted it said something about not loading the drivers
because a newer version was already loaded, or something like
that. (Do those boot time messages get saved somewhere?)
Here's what the install log file says:
** Compiling vboxdrv
Attempting to install using DKMS
Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxdrv/2.1.2/source ->
/usr/src/vboxdrv-2.1.2
DKMS: add Completed.
Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...
Building module:
cleaning build area....
make KERNELRELEASE=2.6.24-22-generic -C /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-generic/build M=/
var/lib/dkms/vboxdrv/2.1.2/build.......
Running the post_build script:
cleaning build area....
DKMS: build Completed.
Running module version sanity check.
vboxdrv.ko:
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-generic/updates/dkms/
depmod....
DKMS: install Completed.
** Compiling vboxnetflt
Attempting to install using DKMS
Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxnetflt/2.1.2/source ->
/usr/src/vboxnetflt-2.1.2
DKMS: add Completed.
Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...
Running the pre_build script:
Building module:
cleaning build area....
make KERNELRELEASE=2.6.24-22-generic -C /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-generic/build M=/
var/lib/dkms/vboxnetflt/2.1.2/build......
cleaning build area....
DKMS: build Completed.
Running module version sanity check.
vboxnetflt.ko:
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-generic/updates/dkms/
depmod....
DKMS: install Completed.
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