Ubuntu 9.10 screen not resizing

[Mike Hogan]

Well I installed the dkms package for ubuntu, and reinstalled the guest additions, and restarted, and still wont resize the display, here's the current logs now after the dkms was installed.

VBoxGuestAdditions.log

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vboxadd-install.log

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[Mike Hogan]

I see a

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Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.31-20-generic (i686)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/vboxvideo/3.1.4/build/ for more information.

in the log, when I check that build dir, there's no make.log in there.
Here's the entire contents of the /var/lib/dkms/vboxvideo build dir.

vboxvideo.tgz

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[Perryg]

The dkms error you are seeing is because the GAs were installed before dkms and most of the errors listed in this log are script echo's.
After reading the newest one it appears that the GAs are installed and should be working. I have no idea why they are not.

The only thing that I ever do when I install a new Ubuntu before I install the GAs is below.
(as sudo)

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apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install dkms
apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install linux-headers-generic

Then install the guest additions and it always works. You can try running these commands and see if it will make it work. I know most if not all are installed but run them anyway. The OS will skip the ones that are already installed.