VirtualBox doesn't work on Archlinux with kernel26 2.6.23.1-8

[Paweł Paprota]

After kernel update to build 8, VirtualBox stopped working... details follow.

uname -a

Linux nzxt 2.6.23-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 13 09:30:10 UTC 2007 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Kernel package in use (patchset info included):

​http://archlinux.org/packages/14180/

VirtualBox GUI doesn't start up.

When trying to start VM with VBoxManage it hangs on "Waiting for the remote session to open...".

[Paweł Paprota]

error log

[Paweł Paprota]

patch that has been added in build 8

[Paweł Paprota]

VirtualBox runs fine on 2.6.23.1-6. You can compare patchsets of -6 and -8 here:

​http://archlinux.org/packages/13318/ ​http://archlinux.org/packages/14180/

I also attached a patch that might be relevant and has been added in -8.

[Frank Mehnert]

Very strange. The only reason for that BUG_ON I can imagine is that Linux somehow clears the function field of the timer we pass to the mod_timer() function.

[Romashka]

This is because of CONFIG_TIMER_STATS option enabled in -8 kernel package, which requires rebuilding of all kernel modules.
Are you using virtualbox-ose or compile virtualbox_bin package from Unsupported?
I'm the maintainer of virtualbox packages in community repo, virtualbox-modules package will be rebuilt in a hour. This should fix this "bug".

[Paweł Paprota]

Hello!

Thanks for your feedback, now it's all clear ;-)

I'm using virtualbox_bin from AUR.

[Romashka]

Hm, then you should rebuild vboxdrv module. ;-) Note that because the -8 kernel package you're using is in Testing repo - community packages will be rebuilt only after it hits Core. Meanwhile users of virtualbox-ose package can get updated virtualbox-modules from ​http://archlinux.org/~roman/

[Romashka]

The kernel26-2.6.23.8-1 is in Core now, I will rebuild virtualbox-modules in Community repo in ~5 hours and report here - if it works fine then this bug can be closed.

[Romashka]

The updated package works fine here. Please close this bugreport.