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rcvboxdrv setup failure

Posted: 13. Jan 2017, 19:29
by drzin69@gmail.com
These are the errors that I have getting. I have done everything I know how to does with this error.

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# rcvboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules                         [  OK  ]
Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules            [  OK  ]
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMSError! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.8.8-100.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.0.22/build/make.log for more information.
                                                           [FAILED]
  (Failed, trying without DKMS)
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules                      [FAILED]
  (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)

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 cat /var/log/vbox-install.log
Uninstalling modules from DKMS
  removing old DKMS module vboxhost version  5.0.22

------------------------------
Deleting module version: 5.0.22
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
Attempting to install using DKMS

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.0.22/source ->
                 /usr/src/vboxhost-5.0.22

DKMS: add completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel.  Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area...
make -j4 KERNELRELEASE=4.8.8-100.fc23.x86_64 -C /lib/modules/4.8.8-100.fc23.x86_64/build M=/var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.0.22/build....(bad exit status: 2)
Failed to install using DKMS, attempting to install without
make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.0 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 CONFIG_MODULE_SIG= -C /lib/modules/4.8.8-100.fc23.x86_64/build modules
test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || (		\
echo >&2;							\
echo >&2 "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.";		\
echo >&2 "         include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\
echo >&2 "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.";	\
echo >&2 ;							\
/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
  
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
scripts/Makefile.build:289: recipe for target '/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/timer-r0drv-linux.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/timer-r0drv-linux.o] Error 1
Makefile:1475: recipe for target '_module_/tmp/vbox.0' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vbox.0] Error 2
Makefile:298: recipe for target 'vboxdrv' failed
make: *** [vboxdrv] Error 2

Re: rcvboxdrv setup failure

Posted: 27. Jan 2017, 17:29
by frank
VBox 5.0.22 did not yet support Linux 4.8. You should upgrade to the most recent 5.0 version of VBox (5.0.32) or even better to 5.1.14.