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yum install VirtualBox-6.0 on CentOS 7 panic with null pointer deference
Posted: 10. Dec 2019, 21:24
by lauatic
I want to install VirtualBox-6.0 on a host with CentOS 7. The "sudo yum install VirtualBox-6.0" has a null pointer deference in the vboxdrv driver and crashed the system. Has anyone else encountered this issue?
$ uname -r
4.19.25-mtpnr_release-develop_rc2-1941-g3899b621-rt16
$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="CentOS Linux"
VERSION="7 (Core)"
ID="centos"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="7"
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 7 (Core)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:centos:centos:7"
Re: yum install VirtualBox-6.0 on CentOS 7 panic with null pointer deference
Posted: 10. Dec 2019, 21:26
by scottgus1
First question is, does "yum" pull from CentOS's repository, or are you installing from
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads ?
The CentOS repository has a forked version, which we don't support here. We can help if you download Virtualbox from the virtualbox.org link.
Re: yum install VirtualBox-6.0 on CentOS 7 panic with null pointer deference
Posted: 10. Dec 2019, 21:38
by lauatic
I downloaded oracle_vbox.asc and virtualbox.repo files from the virtualbox org site. I verified the /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo points to the virtualbox org. Are these the right steps?
Re: yum install VirtualBox-6.0 on CentOS 7 panic with null pointer deference
Posted: 10. Dec 2019, 21:43
by scottgus1
Honestly, I don't know. I'm really a Windows guy trying to expand my horizons. You could either wait for a Linux guru to confirm, or take a shot and see what happens.
There's some lines at the bottom of the downloads link:
Users of Oracle Linux / RHEL can add the Oracle Linux repo file to /etc/yum.repos.d/.
Users of Fedora can add the Fedora repo file to /etc/yum.repos.d/.
that look to me like it's right.
Re: yum install VirtualBox-6.0 on CentOS 7 panic with null pointer deference
Posted: 11. Dec 2019, 09:24
by socratis
lauatic wrote:I want to install VirtualBox-6.0 on a host with CentOS 7.
"CentOS 7.
x", there's no "CentOS 7". What's the "x"?
lauatic wrote:4.19.25-mtpnr_release-develop_rc2-1941-g3899b621-rt16
Are you running a pre-released CentOS version?
Re: yum install VirtualBox-6.0 on CentOS 7 panic with null pointer deference
Posted: 11. Dec 2019, 19:06
by lauatic
$ cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core)
Re: yum install VirtualBox-6.0 on CentOS 7 panic with null pointer deference
Posted: 11. Dec 2019, 19:07
by lauatic
$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.19.25-mtpnr_release-develop_rc2-1941-g3899b621-rt16 (lpnava@b5-mtpnr_lpnava-vm004) (gcc version 5.4.0 (GCC)) #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Wed Jun 12 09:56:29 PDT 2019
[allau@inmp83 ~]$