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guestadditions problem in backtrack

Posted: 21. Apr 2011, 18:03
by ttilt
Hi,

I was using bt4 on virtualbox w/ guestadditions installed w/ no problems.

Then I just tried upgrading to kernel 2.6.35.8 using the instructions here
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/index.php/Upgrading

Then guestadditions stopped working. I tried to reinstall it similar to these instructions: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/...ng_BT4_In_VBox

But now it won't install and gives me the following error msg:

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Failed to install using DKMS, attempting to install without
make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 -C /lib/modules/2.6.35.8/build SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.0 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 modules
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35.8/arch/x86/Makefile:39: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35.8/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35.8/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu'.  Stop.
make: *** [vboxadd_test] Error 2
The problem seems to be w/ the missing file /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35.8/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu from the linux-headers-2.6.35.8 package. But this file just so happens to be referenced by another file inside that same package (/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35.8/arch/x86/Makefile line 39).

I know this is a bug w/ the backtrack linux headers package. But has anyone else experienced this or knows of a way around this bug?

Thanks!