Bug#599054: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#599054: After kernel upgrading vbox is no more usable
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:55:38PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 13:18 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> > 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!
> [...]
>
> So are you going to run dmesg or just make us guess?
>
> Ben.
>
An easy guess: it is exactly the same error already pointed in the report.
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Francesco P. Lovergine
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