Your message dated Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:27:01 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#503473: virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-686: vboxdrv
does not create /dev/vboxdrv
has caused the Debian Bug report #503473,
regarding virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-686: vboxdrv does not create
/dev/vboxdrv
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Package: virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-686
Version: 2.6.26+1.6.2-dfsg-4
Severity: normal
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-686 depends on:
ii linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 [lin 2.6.26-9 Linux 2.6.26 image on PPro/Celeron
virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-686 recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
Check out this session:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> sudo modprobe -r vboxdrv
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> sudo modprobe vboxdrv
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> dmesg | tail -n10
[156266.751606] vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores.
[156266.751620] vboxdrv: fAsync=0 u64DiffCores=1632.
[156266.751652] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is
'normal'.
[156266.751655] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 1.6.2_OSE (interface
0x00070002).
[156734.181319] vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently...
[156734.181319] vboxdrv: Successfully done.
[156734.181319] vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores.
[156734.181319] vboxdrv: fAsync=0 u64DiffCores=1056.
[156734.181319] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is
'normal'.
[156734.181319] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 1.6.2_OSE (interface
0x00070002).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> ls -l /dev/vboxdrv
ls: cannot access /dev/vboxdrv: No such file or directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> virtualbox
WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
Please install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your kernel and
load the module named vboxdrv into your system.
You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> uname -a
Linux geppetto 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Sat Oct 18 16:22:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
I have no idea why the /dev/vboxdrv isn't created.
Regards.
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Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> I have no idea why the /dev/vboxdrv isn't created.
read #502375 and
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=502375#20 in particular.
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