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List:       vbox-users
Subject:    Re: [vbox-users] 1.4.0
From:       David Baron <d_baron () 012 ! net ! il>
Date:       2007-06-11 13:00:17
Message-ID: 200706111600.17203.d_baron () 012 ! net ! il
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On Monday 11 June 2007, Frank Mehnert wrote:
> On Monday 11 June 2007, David Baron wrote:
> > On Sunday 10 June 2007, Frank Mehnert wrote:
> > > Hi David,
> > >
> > > On Sunday 10 June 2007, David Baron wrote:
> > > > >Now it is time to place the module in a separate source package that
> > > > > can be compiled and installed using m-a.
> > > > >
> > > > >The old postinst method worked on each kernel after I booted it
> > > > > (yes, there are those of us playing with more than one host
> > > > > kernel!). The new method, in my mind more convenient, does NOT.
> > > > > Only works for the first kernel on which it is used. My old trick
> > > > > of vi-ing the module and changing the
> > > > >"magic" (provided that string is the same length) also did not work.
> > >
> > > Just make sure that the link /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build points to
> > > the kernel sources of the current kernel and execute
> > > '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'. This should work in any case.
> > > /usr/src/linux is only a fallback if the former link was not found.
> >
> > It did. I needed to set /usr/src/linux anyway.
>
> So please could you provide some more information? That is, which
> distribution are you using and to which directory /lib/modules/`uname
> -r`/build points to? The logfile /var/log/vbox-install.log would also be
> helpful (when compilation of vboxdrv against the current kernel fails of
> course). You could send the log file via private E-mail to frank at
> innotek.de.

Actually might be OK. I had moved the sources after building that kernel :-)


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