vboxnetflt fails to compile; when done manually fails to work.

[davidwhodgins]

After installing 2.1.0, using the rpm, with a host of Mandriva 2009.0 on an i586 system, the vboxnetflt module had not been compiled.

Manually compiling the module using ...

#!/bin/bash
downloaddir=/home/dave/software
rpmfile="VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_mdv2008.0-1.i586.rpm"
tmpdir="/tmp/VirtualBox"
mkdir -p "$tmpdir"
cd "$tmpdir"
rpm2cpio "$downloaddir/$rpmfile">"$tmpdir/VirtualBox.cpio"
cpio -i --make-directories < VirtualBox.cpio
cd "usr/src/vboxdrv-2.1.0/vboxnetflt/"
make
sudo make install

allowed VirtualBox to be started, but any attempt at network access failed, with messages such as ...

Dec 17 16:23:43 hodgins kernel: br_netfilter: Argh!! br_nf_post_routing: bad mac.raw pointer.
Dec 17 16:23:43 hodgins kernel: [eth0][br0] head:f5be5c00, raw:f5be5c20, data:f5be5c20
Dec 17 16:23:43 hodgins kernel: Pid: 6177, comm: VirtualBox Not tainted 2.6.27.7-desktop-0.uc2mnb #1
Dec 17 16:23:43 hodgins kernel:  [<c0381e62>] ? printk+0x18/0x1e
Dec 17 16:23:43 hodgins kernel:  [<fa69771f>] br_nf_post_routing+0x8f/0x2b0 [bridge]
Dec 17 16:23:43 hodgins kernel:  [<c031eee9>] nf_iterate+0x69/0xa0
Dec 17 16:23:43 hodgins kernel:  [<fa692020>] ? br_dev_queue_push_xmit+0x0/0x70 [bridge]
Dec 17 16:23:43 hodgins kernel:  [<c031efb7>] nf_hook_slow+0x97/0xe0

showing up in /var/log/syslog.

I've rolled back to 2.0.6 for now. In addition, I've found that trying to submit this ticket using opera fails. I've switched to firefox, to submit this ticket.

[Frank Mehnert]

It would be very useful if you would could write what the problem was when you compiled the vboxnetflt module. And:

• Do you have installed dkms on your Mandriva system?
• Which Linux kernel is that?