Ubuntu Intrepid breaks Virtualbox

I have had a couple go-arounds with this one now, I try to boot my Virtualbox and it says something like

VirtualBox kernel driver not installed. The vboxdrv kernel module was either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some reason. Re-setup the kernel module by executing '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup' as root.
VBox status code: -1908 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED).

Result Code: 
0x80004005
Component: 
Console
Interface: 
IConsole {d5a1cbda-f5d7-4824-9afe-d640c94c7dcf}

So I run

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

and I get

 * Stopping VirtualBox kernel module                                             
 *  done.
 * Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module                                         
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv: 311: cannot create /var/log/vbox-install.log: Permission denied
    
 * Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong

And the log gives me some funky compile output and an 'Error 2' at the end.

...
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/tmp/vbox.1    
gcc -Wp,-MD,/tmp/vbox.1/linux/.SUPDrv-linux.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.2/include -D__KERNEL__  -Iinclude  -I/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic/arch/x86/include -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Iubuntu/include  -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -O2 -m32 -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -mtune=generic -ffreestanding -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -Iinclude/asm-x86/mach-default -fno-stack-protector -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -pg -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -I/lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/build/include -I/tmp/vbox.1/ -I/tmp/vbox.1/include -I/tmp/vbox.1/r0drv/linux -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DRT_OS_LINUX -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DIN_SUP_R0 -DVBOX -DRT_WITH_VBOX -DCONFIG_VBOXDRV_AS_MISC -DRT_ARCH_X86 -DUSE_NEW_OS_INTERFACE_FOR_MM -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(SUPDrv_linux)"  -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(vboxdrv)" -c -o /tmp/vbox.1/linux/.tmp_SUPDrv-linux.o /tmp/vbox.1/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c

In file included from /tmp/vbox.1/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:35:
/tmp/vbox.1/SUPDRV.h:99:30: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
/tmp/vbox.1/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c: In function 'supdrvOSGipResume':
/tmp/vbox.1/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:1331: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vbox.1/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vbox.1] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic'
make: *** [vboxdrv] Error 2
Turns out it's a bug, the solution is to download the new version from Sun.

Cheers, Af

Posted

Nov 27, 2008
by AnonymousUser

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