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[Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:55:20 on Friday Friday 19 March 2010, Joachim Schrod 
<jschrod@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stan Goodman wrote:
> > At 13:36:05 on Wednesday Wednesday 17 March 2010, Stan Goodman
> >
> > <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > >  At 21:19:58 on Tuesday Tuesday 16 March 2010, Joachim Schrod
> > >
> > >  >  >  WARNING: Can't read
> > >  >  >  module
> > >  >  > 
> > >  >  > /lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-default/weak-updates/updates/vboxvf
> > >  >  >s.ko: No such file or directory
> > >  >  >  WARNING: Can't read
> > >  >  >  module
> > >  >  > 
> > >  >  > /lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-default/weak-updates/updates/vboxad
> > >  >  >d.ko: No such file or directory
> > >  >  >
> > >  >  >  # find -name "vbox*.ko"
> > >  >  >  ./lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-default/misc/vboxnetadp.ko
> > >  >  >  ./lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-default/misc/vboxnetflt.ko
> > >  >  >  ./lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-default/misc/vboxdrv.ko
> > >  >  > 
> > >  >  > ./lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-default/weak-updates/updates/vboxv
> > >  >  >fs.ko
> > >  >  > ./lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-default/weak-updates/updates/vboxa
> > >  >  >dd.ko ./lib/modules/2.6.27.39-0.2-default/misc/vboxnetadp.ko
> > >  >  > ./lib/modules/2.6.27.39-0.2-default/misc/vboxnetflt.ko
> > >  >  > ./lib/modules/2.6.27.39-0.2-default/misc/vboxdrv.ko
> > >  >  >  ./lib/modules/2.6.27.39-0.2-trace/misc/vboxnetadp.ko
> > >  >  >  ./lib/modules/2.6.27.39-0.2-trace/misc/vboxnetflt.ko
> > >  >  >  ./lib/modules/2.6.27.39-0.2-trace/misc/vboxdrv.ko
> > >  >  >  ./lib/modules/2.6.27.39-0.2-debug/misc/vboxnetadp.ko
> > >  >  >  ./lib/modules/2.6.27.39-0.2-debug/misc/vboxnetflt.ko
> > >  >  >  ./lib/modules/2.6.27.39-0.2-debug/misc/vboxdrv.ko
> > >  >  > 
> > >  >  > ./lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-trace/weak-updates/updates/vboxvfs
> > >  >  >.ko
> > >  >  > ./lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-trace/weak-updates/updates/vboxadd
> > >  >  >.ko ./lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1-trace/updates/vboxvfs.ko
> > >  >  > ./lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1-trace/updates/vboxadd.ko
> >
> > In a nutshell, the problem has been reduced to redirecting the two
> > symlinks to kernel modules of the proper version. At present, they
> > are as follows:
> > vboxvfs.ko ->  /lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1-default/updates/vboxvfs.ko
> > vboxadd.ko ->  /lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1-default/updates/vboxadd.ko
> >
> > whereas they should be instead
> > ~vboxvfs.ko ->  /lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-default/updates/vboxvfs.ko
> > ~vboxadd.ko ->  /lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-default/updates/vboxadd.ko
>
> No. The symlink in weak-updates/ should point to existing files in
> the updates/ subdirectory of an older kernel.
>
> One must not have the same kernel modules in weak-updates/ and in
> updates/ of one kernel release, that'll cause havoc. (A symlink to
> an existing file is the same as having that file there.)
>
> > and I should do (from the directory containing the links:
> > ln -sf vboxvfs /lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-default/updates/vboxvfs.ko
> > ln -sf vboxadd /lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-default/updates/vboxadd
>
> No. Check that the files really exist in
> /lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1-trace/updates/, and that there are no
> symlinks. 

They don't, as I discovered yesterday after I wrote. Here is the search:

# find -name "vboxadd.ko"
./lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-default/weak-updates/updates/vboxadd.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-trace/weak-updates/updates/vboxadd.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1-trace/updates/vboxadd.ko
# find -name "vboxvfs.ko"
./lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-default/weak-updates/updates/vboxvfs.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.27.45-0.1-trace/weak-updates/updates/vboxvfs.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1-trace/updates/vboxvfs.ko
#

In fact, the directory  /lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1-default/ doesn't exist.

> Then do 
>
>    cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/weak-updates
>    ln -sf /lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1-trace/updates/vbox*.ko .
>    depmod -a
>
> Then, run
>
>    modprobe vboxvfs
>
> and see if error messages are output to console or to
> /var/log/messages. If not, the kernel module problem has probably
> been resolved. If yes, somebody knowledgable about VirtualBox must
> help you to check what went wrong with your installation.
>
>       Joachim
>
> --
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Joachim Schrod                                Email: jschrod@xxxxxxx
> Roedermark, Germany



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Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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