X can't load vboxvideo after kernel update

[penyuan]

I've got an installation of Arch Linux with OpenBox window manager as a guest machine in VirtualBox 4.0.4 under Mac OS X 10.6.7 host.

I've just done a complete update to the Arch Linux system and got Linux kernel 2.6.28. After the restart I re-installed the VirtualBox Guest Additions with no errors via the VirtualBox manual. However, the guest machine's X.org can no longer start with, and gives the following error:


What should I do to make my window manager work again? Thanks.

[Perryg]

The usual problem is *not* having dkms installed which keeps you headers in sync with the kernel on kernel updates.

[anonova]

Arch also pushed xorg server 1.10 about the same time as kernel26 2.6.38. I don't believe it was the kernel update that broke the video driver but the incompatibility of additions and X 1.10. You might just have to wait for a new release of VirtualBox or seeing if the additions have nightlies of the source you can compile yourself.

[penyuan]

Arch also pushed xorg server 1.10 about the same time as kernel26 2.6.38. I don't believe it was the kernel update that broke the video driver but the incompatibility of additions and X 1.10. You might just have to wait for a new release of VirtualBox or seeing if the additions have nightlies of the source you can compile yourself.

Ahhh.. I think that's it. A specially compiled package of the guest additions were added to the Arch Linux repository along with the kernel update. Installing that package (instead of from my host's VirtualBox) fixed it. Thank you so much for the tip!

[larynx]

I had the same issue and installed virtualbox-guest-additions and virtualbox-guest-modules from the community repositories (forced with -f parameter because the files already existed) and then I loaded the vboxguest, vboxsf, and vboxvideo modules to /etc/rc.conf.

After a reboot everything was fine.

[penyuan]

(forced with -f parameter because the files already existed) and then I loaded the vboxguest, vboxsf, and vboxvideo modules to /etc/rc.conf.
After a reboot everything was fine.

That's exactly what I did, too. Glad it all works now.

[loukingjr]

can someone explain exactly how I would go about this fix?

thanks

edit: nevermind. I figured it out.

[Sasquatch]

Isn't that clear? They already said to install the packages from the community repo. Go to the Arch wiki to learn how to add it and install software from it.

[loukingjr]

Isn't that clear? They already said to install the packages from the community repo. Go to the Arch wiki to learn how to add it and install software from it.

I guess you missed my edit.

p.s. snide responses are much appreciated.

[loukingjr]

I had the same issue and installed virtualbox-guest-additions and virtualbox-guest-modules from the community repositories (forced with -f parameter because the files already existed) and then I loaded the vboxguest, vboxsf, and vboxvideo modules to /etc/rc.conf.

After a reboot everything was fine.

I was wondering if automounting the shared folders is working for you. Everything seems to be working for me also except for that.

[penyuan]

I had the same issue and installed virtualbox-guest-additions and virtualbox-guest-modules from the community repositories (forced with -f parameter because the files already existed) and then I loaded the vboxguest, vboxsf, and vboxvideo modules to /etc/rc.conf.

After a reboot everything was fine.

I was wondering if automounting the shared folders is working for you. Everything seems to be working for me also except for that.

Auto-mounting doesn't seem to work for me. I just set up my configuration files in my guest Arch system to automount the shared folders on boot.

[loukingjr]

I had the same issue and installed virtualbox-guest-additions and virtualbox-guest-modules from the community repositories (forced with -f parameter because the files already existed) and then I loaded the vboxguest, vboxsf, and vboxvideo modules to /etc/rc.conf.

After a reboot everything was fine.

I was wondering if automounting the shared folders is working for you. Everything seems to be working for me also except for that.

Auto-mounting doesn't seem to work for me. I just set up my configuration files in my guest Arch system to automount the shared folders on boot.

sounds about right. thanks

[willowdan]

Still having the issue after installing dkms and the virtualbox guest additions ...

I hope you can help me ..

[yvonney]

i believe you certainly need to install 'libgl' which may ask you to uninstall something like nvidia-utils that conflicts