Re: virtualbox: RTR3Init failed with rc=-1912 (rc=-1912)
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Mathieu Malaterre
<mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Florian Kulzer
> <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 19:03:58 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I am trying to play with virtual box. Once I finish setting up my
>>> virtual machine, and I hit start, I get the following error:
>>>
>>> RTR3Init failed with rc=-1912 (rc=-1912)
>>>
>>> The VirtualBox kernel modules do not fit to this version of
>>> VirtualBox.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Linux mattbox 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 19 22:33:18 UTC 2009
>>> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> $ apt-cache policy virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-2-amd64
>>> virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-2-amd64:
>>> Installed: 2.6.26+1.6.6-dfsg-6+lenny1
>>> Candidate: 2.6.26+1.6.6-dfsg-6+lenny1
>>> Version table:
>>> *** 2.6.26+1.6.6-dfsg-6+lenny1 0
>> ^^^^^
>> note: This part is the version number of the virtualbox kernel modules.
>>
>>> 500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org lenny/main Packages
>>> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>>
>>> $ apt-cache policy virtualbox-ose
>>> virtualbox-ose:
>>> Installed: 3.0.6-dfsg-1~bpo50+1
>>> Candidate: 3.0.6-dfsg-1~bpo50+1
>>> Version table:
>>> 3.0.6-dfsg-1 0
>>> -1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org testing/main Packages
>>> -1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org sid/main Packages
>>> *** 3.0.6-dfsg-1~bpo50+1 0
>>> 850 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages
>>> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>> 1.6.6-dfsg-3 0
>>> 500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org lenny/main Packages
>>
>> You are trying to use the original virtualbox-ose kernel modules of
>> Lenny (version 1.6.6) with the newer virtualbox-ose from backports.org
>> (version 3.0.6). You either have to downgrade the virtualbox-ose package
>> or build newer modules with module-assistant and virtualbox-ose-source
>> from backports.org.
>
> So I decided to go the upgade way.
> I install everything from testing I still do not understand why
> backports would just update part of the virtualbox package...
> Of course this resulted in a update of the kernel
> of course upon reboot I had to install the nvidia driver
> of course the nvidia driver from testing was busted, I could not even
> get it to compile
> of couse when getting nvidia from unstable and module-assistantm
> startx would not load
> of course sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
> of course using nvidia-xconfig did not work
> restarting without nvidia searching on the net I found the Option
> "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP" trick
>
> and now I am all set with my kernel from testingm nvidia and Xserver
> which decided that my keymap was QWERTY thank god the virtual console
> were ok so that I could do all the above...
>
> I need now to find hoz to revert back to azerty now
>
> --
> Mathieu
> Ps virtualbox now starts my winxp without complains
>
Just for complteness firefox thinks I am using QWERTY but all my
consoles thinks I am using AZERTY
--
Mathieu
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