VirtualBox

Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

#3115 closed defect (fixed)

VirtualBox 2.1.2 installation fails (no symbol version for SUPDrvLinuxIDC) => Fixed in SVN

Reported by: Volker Bause Owned by:
Component: installer Version: VirtualBox 2.1.2
Keywords: SUPDrvLinuxIDC Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: Linux

Description (last modified by Frank Mehnert)

Tried Upgrading, Un-installing and then Re-Installing Virtualbox 2.1.2 on OpenSUSE 11.1 x86_64. Installing VirtualBox 2.1.0 works flawlessly before and after.

The installation is done from KDE4 Terminal using su. I also tried logging in as root which does the same.

De-Installation and Re-Installation is as follows:
==================================================
linux-fa23:/setups # rpm -ivh VirtualBox-2.1.2_41885_openSUSE111-1.x86_64.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:VirtualBox             ########################################### [100%]

Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group!

..failed

My System Information is as follows:

linux-fa23:/setups # uname -a
Linux linux-fa23 2.6.27.7-9-default #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Kernel Buffer Ring Reports the following information:

linux-fa23:/setups # dmesg
...
vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently...
vboxdrv: Successfully done.
vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores.
VBoxDrv: dbg - g_abExecMemory=ffffffffa043b960
vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x276 offMax=0xbb4
vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 2.1.0 (interface 0x000a0008).
vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently...
vboxdrv: Successfully done.
vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores.
VBoxDrv: dbg - g_abExecMemory=ffffffffa043b960
vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x245 offMax=0xd97
vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 2.1.2 (interface 0x000a0009).
vboxnetflt: no symbol version for SUPDrvLinuxIDC
vboxnetflt: Unknown symbol SUPDrvLinuxIDC

Change History (10)

comment:1 by Frank Mehnert, 15 years ago

Please execute

/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

This should fix the kernel modules.

comment:2 by Frank Mehnert, 15 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Keywords: VirtualBox 2.1.2 - critical installation error - no symbol version for removed
Summary: VirtualBox 2.1.2 install fails on OpenSUSE 11.1 x86_64VirtualBox 2.1.2 installation fails (no symbol version for SUPDrvLinuxIDC)

comment:3 by Douglas Turner, 15 years ago

I am having a similar issue.
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 2.6.28.2 SMP Tue Jan 27 12:00:18 CST 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
After running '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup', the process reports:

...
Starting VirtualBox kernel module ...failed!
  (modprobe vboxnetflt failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why)


The following messages are in the kernel ring buffer:

[ 4108.931827] vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently...
[ 4108.931829] vboxdrv: Successfully done.
[ 4108.931830] vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores.
[ 4108.931922] VBoxDrv: dbg - g_abExecMemory=ffffffffa0943660
[ 4108.931934] vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x178 offMax=0x8f0
[ 4108.931965] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
[ 4108.931967] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 2.1.2 (interface 0x000a0009).

(Initially I received the error message regarding no symbol version for SUPDrvLinuxIDC).

comment:4 by Frank Mehnert, 15 years ago

dturner, the kernel log does not show any problem. What happens if you do

sudo modprobe vboxnetflt

? Which VBox package are you using, I assume the 2.1.2 package for Ubuntu 8.04 (just to make sure)?

comment:5 by Frank Mehnert, 15 years ago

Summary: VirtualBox 2.1.2 installation fails (no symbol version for SUPDrvLinuxIDC)VirtualBox 2.1.2 installation fails (no symbol version for SUPDrvLinuxIDC) => Fixed in SVN

The openSUSE problem should be fixed definitely. Still waiting for feedback of the Ubuntu problem.

comment:6 by Douglas Turner, 15 years ago

The resolution was to reboot and run after the reboot:

etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

This type of behaviour is not expected for a Linux system. It is also not the behaviour when the packaged installer is used. If it is necessary, it would be helpful to put the step in the README.

comment:7 by Frank Mehnert, 15 years ago

All this shouldn't be necessary. The file /var/log/vbox-install.log would probably tell us more.

comment:8 by Douglas Turner, 15 years ago

Here is the log. (As posted above, a reboot solved the problem and allowed installation of the module).


<contents of /var/log/vbox-install.log>

Attempting to install using DKMS
  removing old DKMS module vboxdrv version  2.1.2

-------- Uninstall Beginning --------
Module:  vboxdrv
Version: 2.1.2
Kernel:  2.6.28.2 (x86_64)
-------------------------------------

Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.

vboxdrv.ko:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/2.6.28.2/
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.

depmod....

DKMS: uninstall Completed.

------------------------------
Deleting module version: 2.1.2
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxdrv/2.1.2/source ->
                 /usr/src/vboxdrv-2.1.2

DKMS: add Completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel.  Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area....
make KERNELRELEASE=2.6.28.2 -C /lib/modules/2.6.28.2/build M=/var/lib/dkms/vboxdrv/2.1.2/build......

Running the post_build script:
cleaning build area....

DKMS: build Completed.
Running module version sanity check.

vboxdrv.ko:
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.28.2/updates/dkms/

depmod....

DKMS: install Completed.
Attempting to install using DKMS
  removing old DKMS module vboxnetflt version  2.1.2

-------- Uninstall Beginning --------
Module:  vboxnetflt
Version: 2.1.2
Kernel:  2.6.28.2 (x86_64)
-------------------------------------

Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.

vboxnetflt.ko:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/2.6.28.2/
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.

depmod....

DKMS: uninstall Completed.

------------------------------
Deleting module version: 2.1.2
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxnetflt/2.1.2/source ->
                 /usr/src/vboxnetflt-2.1.2

DKMS: add Completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel.  Skipping...

Running the pre_build script:

Building module:
cleaning build area....
make KERNELRELEASE=2.6.28.2 -C /lib/modules/2.6.28.2/build M=/var/lib/dkms/vboxnetflt/2.1.2/build......
cleaning build area....

DKMS: build Completed.
Running module version sanity check.

vboxnetflt.ko:
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.28.2/updates/dkms/

depmod....

DKMS: install Completed.

comment:9 by Frank Mehnert, 15 years ago

Thanks, but next time please attach the file (there is a Attach button).

Unfortunately, this file contains the log of your last successful recompilation of the modules. If you would like to help to debug this problem you could uninstall (dpkg --purge) the virtualbox-2.1 package again and install it. The original error should show again. The resulting vbox-install.log file would be interesting. Note: Uninstalling the virtualbox-2.1 package would not harm your VMs.

comment:10 by Frank Mehnert, 15 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Fixed in 2.1.4.

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