should but don't: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

[Perryg]

@nobodie,

There have been reports of dependency issues with F12 and VBox but I have no idea if this is your problem. http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5569
You should add your name to this ticket if you feel it applies to you.
As I said the dkms is not needed to make this work it is just to make you life easier and you can add it back in once this situation has been resolved.
As for the deprecation, it is in some OSes that I use. I have no idea why but it is no longer available via their local repo.

[BobTheBull]

I was getting the same message in opensuse 11.2. I searched the suse forum for this problem and found the following, posted by andreas ohlsson, which worked for me (of course if you are using a different distro, the packages might not be the same; the point is you probably don't have something installed needed to recompile. Check the install log):

I had a similar issue...since I have been running VBOX on 11.1 for a long time, I was puzzled when I ran into problems after installing VBOX 3.0.12 on 11.2.



Following solved my issue:

install kernel-headers
install kernel-syms
install make
install gcc

add users to vbox group

compile: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

keep an eye on:vbox-install.log
in /var/log

hopes it helps you!

[Sasquatch]

BobTheBull, that's just the problem with Fedora 12, that doesn't seem to help/work.

[nobodie]

sorry, but i've been buried under work, still am but also desperate to get this solved. I read the last two posts which still don't seem to cover the issues i have. yes, gcc is install and the PAE-devel kernel as noted. No i haven't installed the OSE version since i often use USB and it used to be that USB wasn't available in OSE, (maybe still is that way I haven't checked).

I have also reinstalled VB, a number of times and believe i have focused the problem down to the pointers for vboxdrv. The makefile points it to /usr/src/linux. the modules were in /usr/src/kernel. fine (i changed the pointer) but when I installed kernel-PAE-devel it failed to install to /usr/src/kernel or /linux. something seems to be confused in the install instruction set, but without the makefile working i'm dead in the water.

[nobodie]

i ran another attempt with vboxdrv and it is trying to make the makefile now with gcc, here was the error from that :

Makefile:150: Warning: using /usr/src/linux as the source directory of your Linux kernel. If this is not correct, specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again.
make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 -C /usr/src/kernels/2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.0 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 modules
test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \
echo; \
echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \
echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing."; \
echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it."; \
echo; \
/bin/false)
mkdir -p /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_versions ; rm -f /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_versions/*
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/tmp/vbox.0


i am not sure what directory i need to be in to run that make, in fact i am over my head and out of time , any suggestions for this?

[Perryg]

The makefile points it to /usr/src/linux. the modules were in /usr/src/kernel. fine (i changed the pointer) but when I installed kernel-PAE-devel it failed to install to /usr/src/kernel or /linux. something seems to be confused in the install instruction set, but without the makefile working I'm dead in the water.

After reading this and looking at my F12 (guest) I would change the script back to the way it was and if the location is different I would use a symlink instead. It may be that it now can not find the headers, which produces this same message for me if they are wrong or missing. Since you changed the location of the script I don't know what it would do.

Either way this may be out of my league since I do not run Fedora as host. You should post this with bugtracker.

[nobodie]

ok, well, i reset the makefile to the original setting and it has stopped trying to make it and has returned to the original fail message with /etc/src/vboxdrv-3.0.12, so i'm back to square 1. now i should bug it up, ok, thanks for all the fish

[nobodie]

as for sym linking, there were, at the beginning of this, symlinks to something that didn't connect to anything useful since it still failed. oh well, i'm thinking about reloading F12 and then starting from scratch. i checked th eforums at fedora and didn't find any mention of this problem there (when it first occurred i went there first thinking it was probably f12 since f11 worked fine, then came here because there were no other forum posts. still don't see this problem anywhere else. which is surprising.

[Sasquatch]

This type of problem was noted about the GA a few times. If Fedora puts the headers in /usr/src/kernel and VB looks at /usr/src/linux, symlink kernel to linux and it should be done, right?

[firefexx]

I have the same problem. You're not alone

Is the problem solved now?

[nobodie]

Perry et al:
just after i sent the last post i got an update notification and checked the update which included a number of kernel updates. hmmmm. sure enough that solved the problem entirely, Vbox is rocking again and what i've always said about fedora still holds, bleeding edge is bleeding edge, if you want stable and safe and works all the time on everything go to debian or red hat, fedora is for the pioneers and that's why i like it. The exercise was good for me and i really appreciate your help through the process.

love and peace up
nobodie

[Perryg]

Man I just knew it!
Glad you are at it and going strong now.

[firefexx]

Have you change any link, path or something else before you've updated your system?
I'm still getting the Error Message with the hint to execute "/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup", but this task fails by the step "Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module".

Any idea what I have to do?

EDIT:
The guys from the German Fedora forum helped me to find a solution:

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yum install kernel-PAE-devel
yum install gcc
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

[scoobythedoo]

Hi everybody,

just wanted to add that I also had this problem. The solution was:
1. reboot with updated kernel
2. install kernel-header package
3. install kernel-PAE-devel package
4. install dkms package (maybe not necessary)
5. install gcc package
6. /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

and it finally worked! Just wanted to share my experience. Hope it will save smb some time.

Schuss, Egor

[wgregori]

I'm having the same problem and I've installed all the libraries mentioned here with no luck.

How do I update my kernel? I've seen a number of posts mentioning this.

Hi everybody,

just wanted to add that I also had this problem. The solution was:
1. reboot with updated kernel
2. install kernel-header package
3. install kernel-PAE-devel package
4. install dkms package (maybe not necessary)
5. install gcc package
6. /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

and it finally worked! Just wanted to share my experience. Hope it will save smb some time.

Schuss, Egor