Hello all - I have been running Fedora Core 12 for the last few months having previously been using Core 11. I am now wishing to have the use of a virtual box to run an existing MS Family Tree package on Windows 2000 professional. I have been unable to find a comparable Linux product.
Whilst I have been using Linux for a number of years now I remain uncomfortable using Bash although I have some successes. So for the purposes of this enquiry please treat me as a 'terminal' user.
I have been unable to complete the loading of the virtual product provided by Oracle: "Oracle VM Virtual Box 3.2.0.r61806".
Although the software has been loaded correctly as well as Windows 2000 when trying to start it the following error message appears:
"Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the kernel module by executing
'/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'
as root. Users of Ubuntu, Fedora or Mandriva should install the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary."
I confirm DKMS and GCC have already been installed. When I do as instructed above the following error message appears:
"[Mark@Mark ~]$ su Password: [root@Mark Mark]# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup Stopping VirtualBox kernel module [ OK ] Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module [FAILED] (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong) [root@Mark Mark]# "
When I look at /var/log/vbox-install.log I get the following response:
"[root@Mark Mark]# /var/log/vbox-install.log bash: /var/log/vbox-install.log: Permission denied [root@Mark Mark]# "
The when I look at Var/log etc to see what can be done the following message appears:
"Attempting to install using DKMS removing old DKMS module vboxdrv version 3.2.0
------------------------------ Deleting module version: 3.2.0 completely from the DKMS tree. ------------------------------ Done.
Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxdrv/3.2.0/source -> /usr/src/vboxdrv-3.2.0
DKMS: add Completed.
Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.32.12-115.fc12.i686.PAE cannot be found at /lib/modules/2.6.32.12-115.fc12.i686.PAE/build or /lib/modules/2.6.32.12-115.fc12.i686.PAE/source. You can use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located. Failed to install using DKMS, attempting to install without Makefile:159: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Stop."
It is at this point I am now lost ! I don't fully understand the question. Any help on this will be gratefully received.
One other query while I am writing; as follows:
I have been trying to regularise the setup of my two HP printers. When using bash using the command hp-setup I get the following error messages:-
"HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.10.2)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0
Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
QGtkStyle was unable to detect the current GTK+ theme.
Qt: Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported
(process:8072): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_style_get: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
(process:8072): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_style_get: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
(process:8072): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_style_get: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
(process:8072): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_style_get: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed".
Help towards sorting this out will be much appreciated
Mark Myatt (Saxmundham)
On 21/05/10 21:12, Mark Jonathan Myatt wrote:
[root@Mark Mark]# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup Stopping VirtualBox kernel module [ OK ] Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module [FAILED] (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong) [root@Mark Mark]# "
When I look at /var/log/vbox-install.log I get the following response:
"[root@Mark Mark]# /var/log/vbox-install.log bash: /var/log/vbox-install.log: Permission denied [root@Mark Mark]# "
You need to tell the shell what you want to do with that log, just typing it's name makes the shell think you want to execute it which isn't possible because it isn't an executable file and the execute permissions bit isn't set (hence the permission denied error)
The simple way to review the whole log would be to type
more /var/log/vbox-install.log
and then press the space bar to view the next page.
or to just see the last few lines type
tail /var/log/vbox-install.log
Mostly I suspect you will see a similar error as per below
Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.32.12-115.fc12.i686.PAE cannot be found at /lib/modules/2.6.32.12-115.fc12.i686.PAE/build or /lib/modules/2.6.32.12-115.fc12.i686.PAE/source. You can use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located. Failed to install using DKMS, attempting to install without Makefile:159: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Stop."
You need to install the kernel source package (or maybe just the kernel headers package) there may be several offered in your distributions package manager but you want the one that matches your current kernel i.e.
2.6.32.12-115.fc12.i686.PAE
and then rerun
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Although DKMS might beat you to it..either way that should get you working.
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Mark Jonathan Myatt -
Wayne Stallwood