On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Michael Meskes <mes...@debian.org> wrote: > First of all why should this be a bug in guest-utils? This looks to me as if
sorry. VBox was working fine and only when I decided to use SharedFolders did I got this issue. > you don't have the right modules for your kernel. Unfortunately your bug > report > lacks information about the virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms version installed. Also > we need to make sure that you indeed have compiled modules for your kernel. So > please remove the modules you have and re-build them $ sudo apt-get remove --purge virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 virtualbox-ose-guest-utils dkms ... $ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-utils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libdb4.5-java libswt3.4-gtk-java libdb4.5-java-gcj liblucene-java libswt3.4-gtk-jni Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: dkms virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 The following NEW packages will be installed: dkms virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms virtualbox-ose-guest-utils virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 220 not upgraded. Need to get 70.1kB/2121kB of archives. After this operation, 8552kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main dkms 2.1.1.2-2~bpo50+1 [70.1kB] Fetched 70.1kB in 0s (287kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package dkms. (Reading database ... 411596 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking dkms (from .../dkms_2.1.1.2-2~bpo50+1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms. Unpacking virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms (from .../virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms_3.1.4-dfsg-1~bpo50+1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package virtualbox-ose-guest-utils. Unpacking virtualbox-ose-guest-utils (from .../virtualbox-ose-guest-utils_3.1.4-dfsg-1~bpo50+1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package virtualbox-ose-guest-x11. Unpacking virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 (from .../virtualbox-ose-guest-x11_3.1.4-dfsg-1~bpo50+1_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for hal ... Regenerating hal fdi cache ... Restarting Hardware abstraction layer: hald. Setting up dkms (2.1.1.2-2~bpo50+1) ... Setting up virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms (3.1.4-dfsg-1~bpo50+1) ... Loading new virtualbox-ose-guest-3.1.4 DKMS files... First Installation: checking all kernels... Building only for 2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64 Building for architecture amd64 Building initial module for 2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64 Done. vboxguest.ko: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64/updates/dkms/ vboxvfs.ko: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64/updates/dkms/ vboxvideo.ko: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64/updates/dkms/ depmod.... DKMS: install Completed. Setting up virtualbox-ose-guest-utils (3.1.4-dfsg-1~bpo50+1) ... Setting up virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 (3.1.4-dfsg-1~bpo50+1) ... $ sudo modprobe vboxvfs WARNING: Error inserting vboxguest (/lib/modules/2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64/updates/dkms/vboxguest.ko): No such device FATAL: Error inserting vboxvfs (/lib/modules/2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64/updates/dkms/vboxvfs.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) Where dmesg is: ... [193140.862592] vboxguest: VirtualBox Guest PCI device not found. [193140.895542] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol RTSemFastMutexCreate [193140.895644] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol VBoxGuestIDCCall [193140.895725] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol RTMemTmpFree [193140.895773] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol RTErrConvertToErrno [193140.895822] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol RTSemFastMutexRequest [193140.895887] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol RTMemTmpAlloc [193140.895935] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol RTLogRelDefaultInstance [193140.895992] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol RTMemContAlloc [193140.896040] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol RTSemFastMutexRelease [193140.896140] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol VBoxGuestIDCOpen [193140.896197] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol AssertMsg2 [193140.896264] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol RTMemContFree [193140.896332] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol RTAssertShouldPanic [193140.896389] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol RTLogLoggerEx [193140.896540] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol VBoxGuestIDCClose [193140.896631] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol AssertMsg1 [193140.896685] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol RTSemFastMutexDestroy If I try to modprobe vboxguest I get: [193438.326626] vboxguest: VirtualBox Guest PCI device not found. [193484.525488] vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently... [193484.525490] vboxdrv: Successfully done. [193484.525492] vboxdrv: Found 8 processor cores. [193484.525543] VBoxDrv: dbg - g_abExecMemory=ffffffffa1004080 [193484.528842] vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x70a offMax=0x3afda [193484.528874] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'. [193484.528876] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 3.1.4_OSE (interface 0x00100001). [193484.535074] vboxguest: exports duplicate symbol RTMemExecFree (owned by vboxdrv) [193484.540567] vboxguest: exports duplicate symbol RTMemExecFree (owned by vboxdrv) [193529.782516] vboxguest: exports duplicate symbol RTMemExecFree (owned by vboxdrv) [193529.783003] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol VBoxGuestIDCCall [193529.783410] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol VBoxGuestIDCOpen [193529.783867] vboxvfs: Unknown symbol VBoxGuestIDCClose Using : $ apt-cache policy virtualbox-ose dkms virtualbox-ose: Installed: 3.1.4-dfsg-1~bpo50+1 Candidate: 3.1.4-dfsg-1~bpo50+1 Version table: 3.1.4-dfsg-3 0 100 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main Packages 3.1.4-dfsg-2 0 200 http://ftp.fr.debian.org testing/main Packages *** 3.1.4-dfsg-1~bpo50+1 0 600 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.6.6-dfsg-3 0 500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org lenny/main Packages dkms: Installed: 2.1.1.2-2~bpo50+1 Candidate: 2.1.1.2-2~bpo50+1 Version table: 2.1.1.2-2 0 200 http://ftp.fr.debian.org testing/main Packages 100 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main Packages *** 2.1.1.2-2~bpo50+1 0 600 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status All I want to do is `mount.vboxsf Share /mnt/Share`. Maybe I do not need to modprobe vboxvfs first... but I could not find anything. There is no man page for mount.vboxsf. So I simply tried: $ mkdir /tmp/vboxshared $ sudo mount -t vboxsf shared /tmp/vboxshared /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device Some search on the net suggest to actually do the (manual) `modprobe vboxvfs` first. Should I modprobe vboxvfs first or not to get mount.vboxsf working ? Thanks ! -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org