Re: Can,t start VirtualBox on F19

[Owen Orakwue <orakwueo@xxxxxxx>]

I tried it and still got the same failure. Thanks.

[root@localhost owen]# systemctl status dkms.service && systemctl restart dkms.service
dkms_autoinstaller.service - LSB: DKMS kernel modules installer service
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/dkms_autoinstaller)
   Active: active (exited) since Tue 2013-10-08 17:04:02 EDT; 7min ago
  Process: 591 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/dkms_autoinstaller start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

[root@localhost owen]# service vboxdrv setup
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                         [FAILED]
  (modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why)
[root@localhost owen]#


-Owen

-----Original Message-----
From: Alchemist <raimiiic@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 12:59 pm
Subject: Re: Can,t start VirtualBox on F19

2013/10/8 Owen Orakwue <orakwueo@xxxxxxx>

I ran the reinstall and it failed the same way :


Total                                           593 kB/s | 9.3 MB     00:16    
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
  Installing : kernel-devel-3.11.3-201.fc19.x86_64                          1/3
  Installing : dkms-2.2.0.3-17.fc19.noarch                                  2/3
  Installing : kernel-headers-3.11.3-201.fc19.x86_64                        3/3
  Verifying  : dkms-2.2.0.3-17.fc19.noarch                                  1/3
  Verifying  : kernel-devel-3.11.3-201.fc19.x86_64                          2/3
  Verifying  : kernel-headers-3.11.3-201.fc19.x86_64                        3/3

Installed:
  dkms.noarch 0:2.2.0.3-17.fc19           kernel-devel.x86_64 0:3.11.3-201.fc19
  kernel-headers.x86_64 0:3.11.3-201.fc19

Complete!
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                         [FAILED]
  (modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why)
[root@localhost owen]#
[root@localhost owen]# service vboxdrv status && ls -l /lib/modules/3.1*/extra
VirtualBox kernel module is not loaded.
/lib/modules/3.11.2-201.fc19.x86_64/extra:
total 12
drwxr-xr-x. 11 root root 4096 Oct  2 20:44 drivers
drwxr-xr-x. 14 root root 4096 Oct  2 20:44 fs
drwxr-xr-x. 18 root root 4096 Oct  2 20:44 net

/lib/modules/3.11.3-201.fc19.x86_64/extra:
total 512
drwxr-xr-x. 11 root root   4096 Oct  6 22:25 drivers
drwxr-xr-x. 14 root root   4096 Oct  6 22:25 fs
drwxr-xr-x. 18 root root   4096 Oct  6 22:25 netUninstalling modules from DKMS
  removing old DKMS module vboxhost version  4.2.18

-------- Uninstall Beginning --------
Module:  vboxhost
Version: 4.2.18
Kernel:  3.11.3-201.fc19.x86_64 (x86_64)
-------------------------------------

Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.
Removing any linked weak-modules

vboxdrv.ko:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/3.11.3-201.fc19.x86_64/extra/
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.


vboxnetflt.ko:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/3.11.3-201.fc19.x86_64/extra/
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.


vboxnetadp.ko:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/3.11.3-201.fc19.x86_64/extra/
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.


vboxpci.ko:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/3.11.3-201.fc19.x86_64/extra/
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.

depmod......

DKMS: uninstall completed.

------------------------------
Deleting module version: 4.2.18
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
Attempting to install using DKMS

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.2.18/source ->
                 /usr/src/vboxhost-4.2.18

DKMS: add completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel.  Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area...
make KERNELRELEASE=3.11.3-201.fc19.x86_64 -C /lib/modules/3.11.3-201.fc19.x86_64/build M=/var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.2.18/build.........
cleaning build area...

DKMS: build completed.

vboxdrv:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.11.3-201.fc19.x86_64/extra/

vboxnetflt.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.11.3-201.fc19.x86_64/extra/

vboxnetadp.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.11.3-201.fc19.x86_64/extra/

vboxpci.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.11.3-201.fc19.x86_64/extra/
Adding any weak-modules

depmod...

DKMS: install completed.

-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 423432 Oct  8 12:40 vboxdrv.ko
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  12736 Oct  8 12:40 vboxnetadp.ko
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  33080 Oct  8 12:40 vboxnetflt.ko
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  31072 Oct  8 12:40 vboxpci.ko
[root@localhost owen]#

As we see modules successfully compiled.

Try systemctl status dkms.service && systemctl restart dkms.service || systemctl start dkms.service

and then service vboxdrv setup

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