[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#564151: Bug#564151: virtualbox-ose: modprobe vboxdrv --> FATAL: Error inserting vboxdrv

[Daryl Styrk]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 09:11:19AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> 
> This looks as if for some reason you're module was incorrectly build. What do
> file and stat say about it? 
> 
> Could you please try to rebuild it? Also could you please look into the logs
> and leftover build files under /var/lib/dkms whether there is something showing
> an incomplete build?

While I don't see anything in /var/lib/dkms as incomplete, the time stamps
indicate that nothing was rebuilt upon the move from the
linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 2.6.32-3 => 2.6.32-4 transition on
01-06-2010. 

# stat vboxdrv.ko 
  File: `vboxdrv.ko'
    Size: 181684    	Blocks: 360        IO Block: 4096   regular file
    Device: fe03h/65027d	Inode: 32755       Links: 1
    Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/
    root)
    Access: 2010-01-07 17:27:25.478364404 -0500
    Modify: 2009-12-30 15:06:53.090747253 -0500
    Change: 2009-12-30 15:06:53.090747253 -0500

# file vboxdrv.ko 
vboxdrv.ko: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not
stripped

# cat make.log 
DKMS make.log for virtualbox-ose-3.1.2 for kernel 2.6.32-trunk-686 (i686)
Wed Dec 30 15:06:28 EST 2009
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-trunk-686'

--8<--

Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 3 modules
CC      /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.1.2/build/vboxdrv/vboxdrv.mod.o
LD [M]  /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.1.2/build/vboxdrv/vboxdrv.ko
CC      /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.1.2/build/vboxnetadp/vboxnetadp.mod.o
LD [M]  /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.1.2/build/vboxnetadp/vboxnetadp.ko
CC      /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.1.2/build/vboxnetflt/vboxnetflt.mod.o
LD [M]  /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-ose/3.1.2/build/vboxnetflt/vboxnetflt.ko
make: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-trunk-686'


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