Bug#599054: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#599054: After kernel upgrading vbox is no more usable
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:54:59PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> reassign 599054 linux-image-2.6.32-5-686
> thanks
>
> > /etc/init.d/virtualbox-ose start fails with:
> >
> > Oct 4 09:27:38 blegrez kernel: [ 247.934129] supdrvGipCreate: failed to allocate the GIP page. rc=-8
> >
> > This is for sure true on i386 and does not allow rebuilding of modules too.
>
> I don't know what you mean with "does not allow rebuilding of modules". A
> simple module rebuild fixed the problem for me which leads me to believe that
> the kernel ABI has changed.
>
module-assistant fails as well:
Done with /usr/src/virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.32-5-686_3.2.8-dfsg-2+2.6.32-24_i386.deb .
dpkg -Ei /usr/src/virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.32-5-686_3.2.8-dfsg-2+2.6.32-24_i386.deb
Selezionato il pacchetto virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.32-5-686.
(Lettura del database... 309581 file e directory attualmente installati.)
Estrazione di virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.32-5-686 (da .../virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.32-5-686_3.2.8-dfsg-2+2.6.32-24_i386.deb)...
Configurazione di virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.32-5-686 (3.2.8-dfsg-2+2.6.32-24)...
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules.
Starting VirtualBox kernel modulesmodprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why ... failed!
failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox-ose, action "restart" failed.
(sorry for localized information)
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Francesco P. Lovergine
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