(Solved) Virtualbox will not install the kernel module

Started by vilde, 2013/09/06, 10:01:43

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vilde

Running xfce 64 bit with a fresh d-u



"Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)"

root@siductionbox-T400:/home/vilde# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
[ ok ] Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules:.
[....] Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules:
[FAIL] Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong ... failed!



from vbox-install.log: make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.0 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 CONFIG_MODULE_SIG= -C /lib/modules/3.7-5.towo-siduction-amd64/build modules
test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \
echo >&2; \
echo >&2 "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \
echo >&2 "         include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\
echo >&2 "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it."; \
echo >&2 ; \
/bin/false)

ayla

Hi

don't know whether this helps because:

Quote from: "Vilde"
Running xfce 64 bit with a fresh d-u ....

....make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.0 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 CONFIG_MODULE_SIG= -C /lib/modules/3.7-5.towo-siduction-amd64/build modules

On my system (see below) the .deb from the virtualbox side for wheezy

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

installs and runs without problems.

Quotedpkg -i /home/cal/Downloads/virtualbox-4.2_4.2.16-86992~Debian~wheezy_amd64.deb
(Lese Datenbank ... 195338 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Vorbereitung zum Ersetzen von virtualbox-4.2 4.2.14-86644~Debian~wheezy (durch .../virtualbox-4.2_4.2.16-86992~Debian~wheezy_amd64.deb) ...
[ ok ] Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules:.
Ersatz für virtualbox-4.2 wird entpackt ...
virtualbox-4.2 (4.2.16-86992~Debian~wheezy) wird eingerichtet ...
Neue Version der Konfigurationsdatei /etc/init.d/vboxdrv wird installiert ...
addgroup: Die Gruppe »vboxusers« existiert bereits als Systemgruppe. Programmende.
[ ok ] Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules:.
[ ok ] Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules:.
[ ok ] Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS:.
[ ok ] Starting VirtualBox kernel modules:.
Trigger für shared-mime-info werden verarbeitet ...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu'
Trigger für desktop-file-utils werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für mime-support werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für hicolor-icon-theme werden verarbeitet

dkms has to be installed for this one.

greets
ayla


Edit: AFAIK there can be two possible problems:
1)
Using virtualbox from sid and virtualbox-dkms hasn't worked in the past, therefore the change to virtualbox from virtualbox.org and the use of dkms was suggested here in the forum. I do not know whether this is fixed in between, I'm using virtualbox.org since then with no problems. Just apt-get purge virtualbox* and install dkms and then the new .deb. Has worked here and even kept my virtual machines.
2)
Using dmakms will no longer work AFAIK because it's no longer maintained.

vilde

Ok, thank you ayla, I did copy the wrong part of the vbox-install.log file, I took the first part whwn I should have taken the last part, her is the last part:

Quotemake KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.0 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 CONFIG_MODULE_SIG= -C /lib/modules/3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/build modules
test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || (      \
   echo >&2;                     \
   echo >&2 "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.";      \
   echo >&2 "         include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\
   echo >&2 "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.";   \
   echo >&2 ;                     \
   /bin/false)
mkdir -p /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_versions ; rm -f /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_versions/*
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/tmp/vbox.0
  gcc-4.8 -Wp,-MD,/tmp/vbox.0/linux/.VBoxPci-linux.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/include -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated  -Iinclude -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include /usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/include/linux/kconfig.h -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Os -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -m64 -mno-sse -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -funit-at-a-time -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fstack-protector -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fomit-frame-pointer -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -include /tmp/vbox.0/include/VBox/SUPDrvMangling.h -I/lib/modules/3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/build/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux -I/tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci/r0drv/linux -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DRT_OS_LINUX -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBOX -DRT_WITH_VBOX -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING -DRT_ARCH_AMD64 -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS  -DMODULE  -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(VBoxPci_linux)"  -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(vboxpci)" -c -o /tmp/vbox.0/linux/.tmp_VBoxPci-linux.o /tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxPci-linux.c
  gcc-4.8 -Wp,-MD,/tmp/vbox.0/.VBoxPci.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/include -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated  -Iinclude -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include /usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/include/linux/kconfig.h -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Os -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -m64 -mno-sse -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -funit-at-a-time -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fstack-protector -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fomit-frame-pointer -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -include /tmp/vbox.0/include/VBox/SUPDrvMangling.h -I/lib/modules/3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/build/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux -I/tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci/r0drv/linux -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DRT_OS_LINUX -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBOX -DRT_WITH_VBOX -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING -DRT_ARCH_AMD64 -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS  -DMODULE  -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(VBoxPci)"  -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(vboxpci)" -c -o /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_VBoxPci.o /tmp/vbox.0/VBoxPci.c
  gcc-4.8 -Wp,-MD,/tmp/vbox.0/.SUPR0IdcClient.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/include -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated  -Iinclude -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include /usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/include/linux/kconfig.h -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Os -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -m64 -mno-sse -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -funit-at-a-time -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fstack-protector -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fomit-frame-pointer -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -include /tmp/vbox.0/include/VBox/SUPDrvMangling.h -I/lib/modules/3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/build/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux -I/tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci/r0drv/linux -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DRT_OS_LINUX -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBOX -DRT_WITH_VBOX -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING -DRT_ARCH_AMD64 -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS  -DMODULE  -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(SUPR0IdcClient)"  -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(vboxpci)" -c -o /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_SUPR0IdcClient.o /tmp/vbox.0/SUPR0IdcClient.c
  gcc-4.8 -Wp,-MD,/tmp/vbox.0/.SUPR0IdcClientComponent.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/include -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated  -Iinclude -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include /usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/include/linux/kconfig.h -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Os -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -m64 -mno-sse -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -funit-at-a-time -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fstack-protector -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fomit-frame-pointer -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -include /tmp/vbox.0/include/VBox/SUPDrvMangling.h -I/lib/modules/3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/build/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux -I/tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci/r0drv/linux -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DRT_OS_LINUX -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBOX -DRT_WITH_VBOX -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING -DRT_ARCH_AMD64 -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS  -DMODULE  -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(SUPR0IdcClientComponent)"  -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(vboxpci)" -c -o /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_SUPR0IdcClientComponent.o /tmp/vbox.0/SUPR0IdcClientComponent.c
  gcc-4.8 -Wp,-MD,/tmp/vbox.0/linux/.SUPR0IdcClient-linux.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/include -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated  -Iinclude -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include /usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/include/linux/kconfig.h -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Os -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -m64 -mno-sse -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -funit-at-a-time -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fstack-protector -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fomit-frame-pointer -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -include /tmp/vbox.0/include/VBox/SUPDrvMangling.h -I/lib/modules/3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/build/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux -I/tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci/r0drv/linux -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DRT_OS_LINUX -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBOX -DRT_WITH_VBOX -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING -DRT_ARCH_AMD64 -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS  -DMODULE  -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(SUPR0IdcClient_linux)"  -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(vboxpci)" -c -o /tmp/vbox.0/linux/.tmp_SUPR0IdcClient-linux.o /tmp/vbox.0/linux/SUPR0IdcClient-linux.c
 ld -m elf_x86_64   -r -o /tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci.o /tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxPci-linux.o /tmp/vbox.0/VBoxPci.o /tmp/vbox.0/SUPR0IdcClient.o /tmp/vbox.0/SUPR0IdcClientComponent.o /tmp/vbox.0/linux/SUPR0IdcClient-linux.o
(cat /dev/null;   echo kernel//tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci.ko;) > /tmp/vbox.0/modules.order
make -f /usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/scripts/Makefile.modpost
 find /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_versions -name '*.mod' | xargs -r grep -h '\.ko$' | sort -u | sed 's/\.ko$/.o/' | scripts/mod/modpost -m -a -i /usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/Module.symvers -I /tmp/vbox.0/Module.symvers  -o /tmp/vbox.0/Module.symvers -S -w -s -T -
  gcc-4.8 -Wp,-MD,/tmp/vbox.0/.vboxpci.mod.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/include -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated  -Iinclude -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include /usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/include/linux/kconfig.h -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Os -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -m64 -mno-sse -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -funit-at-a-time -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fstack-protector -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fomit-frame-pointer -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -include /tmp/vbox.0/include/VBox/SUPDrvMangling.h -I/lib/modules/3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/build/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux -I/tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci/ -I/tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci/include -I/tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci/r0drv/linux -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DRT_OS_LINUX -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBOX -DRT_WITH_VBOX -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING -DRT_ARCH_AMD64 -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS  -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(vboxpci.mod)"  -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(vboxpci)" -DMODULE  -c -o /tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci.mod.o /tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci.mod.c
 ld -r -m elf_x86_64 -T /usr/src/linux-headers-3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64/scripts/module-common.lds --build-id  -o /tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci.ko /tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci.o /tmp/vbox.0/vboxpci.mod.o
Makefile:181: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again.  Stannar.
Makefile:181: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again.  Stannar.
Looks like it can't find the kernel sources?

Edit:
I checked and found that the headers for my current kernel was not installed, shouldn't it be that by automatic?

Anyway, after installing the headers I was able to build the virtualbox kernel module. so solved :)

But why was not the kernel headers there?

Geier0815

Wenn Windows die Lösung ist...
kann ich dann bitte das Problem zurück haben?

vilde

#4
Quote from: Geier0815Maybe this temporary problem?
That's probably right