On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Bill Page <bill.p...@newsynthesis.org> wrote: > > William, Marshall, > > Have you tried recompiling the Virtualbox kernel headers? > > $ sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup > > It also reloads the kernel module. > > I suppose that reasonably you should not have to do this immediately > after an install but perhaps the install misses something subtle about > the configuration.
In this discussion we're using OS X, so there's no such thing as /etc/init.d or compiling kernel modules... William > > Regards, > Bill Page. > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:33 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:18 AM, mhampton wrote: >>> >>> I can't seem to get virtualbox 3.0.8 to work on my mac. Things work >>> fine on my windows machine, I did a small test by adding the new >>> biopython optional package and that worked well. I am curious if >>> anyone else can get virtualbox to work on OS X 10.4, or if its >>> something funny about my machine. >>> >>> -Marshall >> >> I just had exactly the same problem as you with the same error message >> on my OS X 10.6 macbook air laptop. I did the following: >> >> 1. Rebooted. That didn't fix it. >> 2. Downloaded VirtualBox (3.0.10 now -- they release more often >> than Sage!), and reinstalled from scratch. That didn't help. >> 3. Reinstalled 3.0.10 *again* from scratch... and everything works >> now. Weird. >> >> When I googled for results about this error message during the last >> week, all I found were emails from you. >> > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
