[vbox-dev] installation script seems not to work here (fedora core 6)

[Frank Mehnert]

Hi Luca,

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 23:39, Luca Dionisi wrote:
> Indeed my system had a wrong symlink, from /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
> to /usr/src/kernels/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6-i586 instead of
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6-i686
> Who knows!
>
> Anyway, now the installer does the job, but I have another
> problem. The installer said:
>
> Verifying archive integrity... All good.
> Uncompressing VirtualBox for Linux installation.....
> VirtualBox Version 1.3.2 (Sun Jan 14 15:25:08 CET 2007) installation
> Installing VirtualBox to /opt/VirtualBox-1.3.2
> FATAL: Error inserting vboxdrv
> (/lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6/misc/vboxdrv.ko): Invalid module
> format
>
> VirtualBox has been installed successfully.
>
> What is this invalid module format?
>
> The same message appear when I try and start the service vboxdrv.

Please type 'dmesg' to display the last kernel messages. This
will help to find out what's going wrong.

> And, if I try and run VirtualBox, it says:
>  error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory

You need to find the appropriate fc6 package which contains that
library.

Kind regards,

Frank
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