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Fedora 9 recompile kernel???
Posted: 15. May 2008, 19:09
by Arkolis
I recently upgraded to fedora 9 and my virtual machine xp, will no longer run.
ive tried to recompile the kernel like i did in fedora 8 but it doesnt work. thanks
VirtualBox kernel driver not installed. The vboxdrv kernel module was either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some reason. Re-setup the kernel module by executing '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup' as root.
VBox status code: -1908 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED).
Result Code:
0x80004005
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {d5a1cbda-f5d7-4824-9afe-d640c94c7dcf}
Posted: 15. May 2008, 21:22
by Whitee
I'm having a hell of a time with Fedora 9 also...
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel module [ OK ]
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module [FAILED]
(Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)
[root@gwhite-xp-2 kernels]# cat /var/log/vbox-install.log
which: no dkms in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin)
Makefile:127: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Stop.
Can't seem to get the kernel source installed for
2.6.25-14.fc9.i686
ls /usr/src/kernels/
2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686
is all I seem to be able to get...
Any sudgestions?
Posted: 16. May 2008, 00:43
by Brian Jester
Here's the solution:
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Step 1: Get the kernel-devel package (as well as a few others)
sudo yum install make automake autoconf gcc kernel-devel
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Step 2: sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
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Step 3: Run the setup file for VirtualBox:
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Step 4: Add yourself to the “vboxusers” group:
su -
usermod -G vboxusers -a username
exit
5.) Run, and enjoy!
VirtualBox
hth,
-Brian
Fixed
Posted: 16. May 2008, 18:53
by Arkolis
After a while of playing with it I got it to work,
although ironically fedora 9 says usermod command not found so i had to add it threw the users and groups thing.
Thanks.
Posted: 17. May 2008, 15:08
by scottro
For an explanation of that command not found see
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/rhpath.html
(It comes up so frequently on Fedoraforums that I put up a page about it.)
Actually, you can also use gpasswd which is in /usr/bin, so it will be in your path with sudo or an su without the -.
gpasswd -a john vboxusers
Thanks
Posted: 20. May 2008, 23:23
by netlurker
Thanks for the solution Brian, much simpler than it looked. Almost have my F9 box up to the functionality of F8 now.
Posted: 21. May 2008, 00:23
by the4thchild
I got a similar error message which was fixed by installing dkms:
Posted: 28. Jun 2008, 19:03
by FergatROn
Excellent, thanks fellas. I had the same problem with my Fedora 9. I did the
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sudo yum install make automake autoconf gcc kernel-devel
And it seems the only one I was missing was "kernel-devel". After installing that the recompile was a piece of cake.
Install Problem
Posted: 27. Feb 2009, 18:16
by gursoyklr
Makefile:143: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Durdu.
problem continue
my system fedora 9
I installed
yum install make automake autoconf gcc kernel-devel
yum install dkms
yum install gcc
yum install make automake autoconf gcc kernel-devel
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
just this not working>usermod -G vboxusers -a username from me how I can do?
Posted: 27. Feb 2009, 20:57
by Sasquatch
Update your system to the lastest packages, then reboot and make sure that you are booted in the latest available kernel. Check the versions of your kernel with the kernel-devel package, they must be the same.
Posted: 28. Feb 2009, 09:55
by gursoyklr
thanks
[root@gursoykiler gursoykiler]# yum install kernel-devel.i686
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Package kernel-devel-2.6.27.15-78.2.23.fc9.i686 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
I didnt understand
Posted: 28. Feb 2009, 21:36
by Sasquatch
Are you running the i686 kernel, and is it that exact version too? If you run uname -a, you will get the kernel version information.
Re: Fedora 9 recompile kernel???
Posted: 1. May 2009, 20:08
by mythink
I am having same issue,
** Compiling vboxdrv
Makefile:140: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Stop.
when check, /etc/init.d/vboxdrv
I believe the issue lies here:
find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -name "vboxdrv\.*" 2>/dev/null|grep -q vboxdrv
uname -r
2.6.9-67.0.0.0.1.ELsmp
cd /lib/modules/2.6.9-67.0.0.0.1.ELsmp
no vboxdrv listed here in the kernel files installing from Linux RHEL RPM: VirtualBox-2.2.2_46594_rhel4-1.i386.rpm
Downloaded from sun directly.
seems some files are to be added by the RMP then compiled with the kernel, any one have any ideas or resolution.
Thanks in advance.
Re: Fedora 9 recompile kernel???
Posted: 18. May 2009, 11:49
by phe
Hello,
I have the same problem.
Is your problem solved now?
How did you solved it ?
Originally I had F9 (kernel 2.6.26.6-79) running with Virtualbox 2.0.4.
After update of my kernel to 2.6.27.21-78.2.41 I updated also VB to 2.2.2.
But now my virtualbox will not start its machines.
When I go into /usr/bin/ and I start it from there I get followong result :
[root@f9 bin]# VirtualBox
VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so",)
failed: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so: undefined symbol: _ZN8QPainter10drawPixmapERK7QPointFRK7QPixmap
[root@f9 bin]#
I did :
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[root@f9 bin]# yum install gcc gcc-c++ make automake kernel-devel
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Package gcc-4.3.0-8.i386 already installed and latest version
Package gcc-c++-4.3.0-8.i386 already installed and latest version
Package 1:make-3.81-12.fc9.i386 already installed and latest version
Package automake-1.10.1-2.noarch already installed and latest version
Package kernel-devel-2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
[root@f9 bin]#
vbox-install.log :
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make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 -C /lib/modules/2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686/build 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
gcc -Wp,-MD,/tmp/vbox.0/linux/.SUPDrv-linux.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.3.0/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -I/u
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[root@f9 log]# rpm -qa | grep gcc | sort
gcc-4.3.0-8.i386
gcc-c++-4.3.0-8.i386
gcc-gfortran-4.3.0-8.i386
libgcc-4.3.0-8.i386
[root@f9 log]# rpm -qa | grep qt | sort
avahi-qt3-0.6.22-11.fc9.i386
dbus-qt-0.70-4.fc9.i386
pinentry-qt-0.7.4-5.fc9.i386
poppler-qt4-0.8.7-1.fc9.i386
qt3-3.3.8b-14.fc9.i386
qt3-designer-3.3.8b-14.fc9.i386
qt3-devel-3.3.8b-14.fc9.i386
qt-4.4.3-5.fc9.i386
qt-devel-4.4.3-5.fc9.i386
qt-mysql-4.4.3-5.fc9.i386
qtparted-0.4.5-18.fc9.i386
qt-x11-4.4.3-5.fc9.i386
[root@f9 log]# rpm -qa | grep '27.21'|sort
kernel-2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686
kernel-devel-2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686
kernel-firmware-2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.noarch
kernel-headers-2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i386
[root@f9 log]# uname -a
Linux f9.localhost.localdomain 2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 23 23:45:58 EDT 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Someone any idea ?
Thanks,
phe