Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1185 mails)

[Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 17:41:31 on Saturday Saturday 15 May 2010, "Ken Schneider - openSUSE" 
<suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/15/2010 09:21 AM, Mark Goldstein pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> > Stan,
> >
> > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Stan Goodman
> >
> > <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > The package is: VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.8_6139_openSUSE111-1.x86_64.rpm.
> > > According to the VB download page this is suitable for both oS 11.1
> > > and 11.2. The system is 11.2.
> > >
> > > Installing VirtualBox is very easy, I have done it several times.
> > > This time, however, I failed to install the kernel sources first.
> > >
> > > I installed the sources after being reminded by the installation,
> > > and tried again, only to be told that VirtualBox is already
> > > installed.
> > >
> > > The answer to that seemed to be to uninstall it and install afresh,
> > > but instead I was told that there was nothing to uninstall. So it
> > > both is and isn't.
> > >
> > > How to recover from this?
> >
> > Probably there is a way to cleanup the database, but I would try
> > downloading the package
> > VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.8_6139_openSUSE111-1.x86_64.rpm from repository
> > and then installing it locally with rpm -i --force. I guess, this
> > will override the partial info in the package db.
>
> The better way would be to use -u --oldpackage instead of --force.

# rpm -u --oldpackage VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.8_61349_openSUSE111-1.x86_64.rpm
-u: unknown option
# rpm -U --oldpackage VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.8_61349_openSUSE111-1.x86_64.rpm
warning: VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.8_61349_openSUSE111-1.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 
DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6dfbcbae
        package VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.8_61349_openSUSE111-1.x86_64 is already 
installed
 #

I tried again to load VB, so that I could report the response, and 
received a different reaction from previously. It seems that there is a 
kernal-source mismatch. I says that it the currently installed kernel is:
2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop, while the kernel-source file that I installed 
yesterday is 2.6.31.12-0.2.1 (no "desktop"). So apparently the kernel has 
not been updated. I have now installed the updated kernel, rebooted, and 
run </etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup>. This failed, and directed me to the log 
at /var/log/vbox-install.log. This tells me that:

/usr/share/virtualbox/src/vboxdrv/build_in_tmp: line 95: make: command not 
found

???
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Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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