Bug#599054: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#599054: After kernel upgrading vbox is no more usable

2010-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:10:27PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > I'm not about to dig into the virtualbox source, so you tell me what's > > going on. > > I guess he was talking about the bug report. The message is this: > > [11016.299837] supdrvGipCreate: failed to allocate the GIP page. rc=-8

Bug#599054: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#599054: After kernel upgrading vbox is no more usable

2010-10-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:55:38PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 13:18 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:54:59PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > > reassign 599054 linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 > > > thanks > > > > > > > /etc/init.d/virtualbox-ose

Bug#599054: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#599054: After kernel upgrading vbox is no more usable

2010-10-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 02:12:26PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:18:42PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > module-assistant fails as well: > > ... > > Starting VirtualBox kernel modulesmodprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use > > 'dmesg' to find out why ... failed! >

Bug#599054: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#599054: After kernel upgrading vbox is no more usable

2010-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 13:18 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:54:59PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > reassign 599054 linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 > > thanks > > > > > /etc/init.d/virtualbox-ose start fails with: > > > > > > Oct 4 09:27:38 blegrez kernel: [ 247.9341

Bug#599054: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#599054: After kernel upgrading vbox is no more usable

2010-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 14:14 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:55:38PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 13:18 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:54:59PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > > > reassign 599054 linux-

Bug#599054: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#599054: After kernel upgrading vbox is no more usable

2010-10-04 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:18:42PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > module-assistant fails as well: > ... > Starting VirtualBox kernel modulesmodprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' > to find out why ... failed! > failed! > invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox-ose, action "restart" failed

Bug#599054: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#599054: After kernel upgrading vbox is no more usable

2010-10-04 Thread Michael Meskes
reassign 599054 linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 thanks > /etc/init.d/virtualbox-ose start fails with: > > Oct 4 09:27:38 blegrez kernel: [ 247.934129] supdrvGipCreate: failed to > allocate the GIP page. rc=-8 > > This is for sure true on i386 and does not allow rebuilding of modules too. I don't kn

Bug#599054: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#599054: After kernel upgrading vbox is no more usable

2010-10-04 Thread Michael Meskes
> I'm not about to dig into the virtualbox source, so you tell me what's > going on. I guess he was talking about the bug report. The message is this: [11016.299837] supdrvGipCreate: failed to allocate the GIP page. rc=-8 Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meske

Bug#599054: After kernel upgrading vbox is no more usable

2010-10-04 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: virtualbox-ose Version: 3.2.8-dfsg-2 Severity: grave /etc/init.d/virtualbox-ose start fails with: Oct 4 09:27:38 blegrez kernel: [ 247.934129] supdrvGipCreate: failed to allocate the GIP page. rc=-8 This is for sure true on i386 and does not allow rebuilding of modules too. -- Syste

Bug#599054: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#599054: After kernel upgrading vbox is no more usable

2010-10-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:54:59PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > reassign 599054 linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 > thanks > > > /etc/init.d/virtualbox-ose start fails with: > > > > Oct 4 09:27:38 blegrez kernel: [ 247.934129] supdrvGipCreate: failed to > > allocate the GIP page. rc=-8 > > > > This

Bug#599054: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#599054: After kernel upgrading vbox is no more usable

2010-10-04 Thread Michael Meskes
> I had to rebuild both -guest-kms and -ose modules, which implies that > there's not a safe upgrade path for vbox when ABI changes as it is > currently. Quite bad, because the näive user needs to manually recover > things more than expected. Well there is. If this really was an ABI change the ker