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virtualbox-ose-modules package

VirtualBox. Image failed to boot after update to kernel 2.6.24-20

Bug #252331 reported by Fabio Serpa on 2008-07-27

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	virtualbox-ose-modules (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned
	Hardy	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose

It's a Windows XP image. Created using virtualbox and kernel 2.6.24-19-generic. After update to kernel 2.6.24-20-generic, the image fails to boot and virtualbox show this log bellow:

VirtualBox kernel driver not installed. The vboxdrv kernel module was either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some reason. Please install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your kernel, e.g. virtualbox-ose-modules-generic..
VBox status code: -1908 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED).

Result Code:
0x80004005
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {1dea5c4b-0753-4193-b909-22330f64ec45}

There is no virtualbox modules for kernel 2.6.24-20-generic.

Thanks!

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lp:ubuntu/hardy-updates/virtualbox-ose-modules

Fabio Serpa (fs3rp4) on 2008-07-27

description:

updated

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Jon Packard (jonpackard) wrote on 2008-07-27:

It looks like you're not the only one who ran into this problem after upgrading to 2.6.24-20-generic. This how-to describes how to compile the modules from source: http://technologytales.com/2008/07/27/getting-virtualbox-working-on-ubuntu-after-a-kernel-upgrade/

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Daniel Stränger (schmaller) wrote on 2008-07-28:

virtualbox-ose-modules_24_24.0.5.diff.gz Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain)

The VirtualBox kernel modules still have to be rebuild manually each time the kernel version changes.
Daniel Hahler did a great job and normally provided these rebuilds just in time.
Maybe he's currently "out of office", so i took the challenge and created my first PPA build - successfully after some small problems!
All packages are available in my PPA https://launchpad.net/~schmaller/+archive.

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Fabio Serpa (fs3rp4) wrote on 2008-07-28:

Worked perfect.

Thank you!

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tom-erik paulsen (tom-erik) wrote on 2008-07-28:

Worked fine for me to ;)
Thanks!

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote on 2008-07-28:

Thanks for the patch, sponsoring.
Next time please subscribe ubuntu-universe-sponsors and use "*" in debian/changelog lists (instead of "-").

Changed in virtualbox-ose:
assignee:	nobody → blueyed
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → In Progress

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2008-07-31:

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Changed in virtualbox-ose-modules:
status:	New → Fix Committed

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Alexey Androsov (doochik) wrote on 2008-08-01:

All works fine for me. Thank you!

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote on 2008-08-01:

Works for me, too.
Upgrading virtualbox-ose-modules-generic (24.0.5 => 24.0.5) made virtualbox-ose work again for using images.

Changed in virtualbox-ose-modules:
assignee:	blueyed → nobody
status:	In Progress → Triaged

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2008-08-04:

Copied to hardy-updates.

Changed in virtualbox-ose-modules:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) wrote on 2008-08-04:

#10

Is this relevant for Intrepid?

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Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote on 2008-08-04:

#11

For Intrepid boot failure (kernel panic), please see bug 246067

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Michael R. Head (burner) wrote on 2008-08-05:

#12

Did this update somehow make its way into hardy-updates instead of hardy-proposed? I have disabled hardy-proposed and am finding that update-manager wants to pull in the 2.6.24-20 modules (which it can't find of course).

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shaggy (slimshaggy) wrote on 2008-08-18:

#13

Same problem here as Michael R. Head wrote on 2008-08-05.

Package: virtualbox-ose-modules-386 Depends on virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-20-386
Package: virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-20-386 Depends on linux-image-2.6.24-20-386

linux-image-2.6.24-20-386 is not available

Looks like hardy-updates and hardy-proposed are mixed up? When will they release linux-image-2.6.24-20-386, since this would fix the problem anyway (i think).

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote on 2008-08-23:

#14

Marking this bug Fix released.
See bug 255150 for the mismatch between hardy-proposed and hardy-updates.