[arch-general] Anybody else having trouble with Virtualbox after upgrade

Pico Geyer picogeyer at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 10:20:46 EDT 2010


On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists at itech7.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Pico Geyer <picogeyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I hope this is the right place for me to raise my issue.
>> After doing a pacman -Syu and then rebooting I noticed that I could no
>> longer start my VirtualBox vms
>>
>> I get the following error: Failed to open a session for the virtual
>> machine My_VM
>> Callee RC: NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057)
>> Virtualbox then crashes (segmentation fault).
>>
>> I had the testing repo enabled, so I thought that one of the packages
>> from testing might have broken it.
>> So I disabled the testing repo in pacman.conf and removed all testing
>> packages with:
>> pacman -Syy
>> pacamn -Suu
>>
>> I then recompiled my virtualbox drivers and rebooted.
>> But that did not help at all.
>>
>> I created a core dump file by following these instructions:
>> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Core_dump
>>
>> So the stack trace is 41000 lines long :-|
>> I'll paste just the first and last few lines:
>> #0  0xb5cad825 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
>> #1  0xb5ca7b27 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
>> #2  0xb5ca9760 in QTextEngine::itemize() const () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
>> #3  0xb5caeca8 in QTextLayout::beginLayout() () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
>> #4  0xb5b9b550 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
>> #5  0xb5b9c1b1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
>> [snip]
>> #41537 0xb5a36407 in QApplication::exec() () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
>> #41538 0xb6b5405b in TrustedMain () from /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so
>> #41539 0x08048d9f in ?? ()
>> #41540 0xb76ccc76 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
>> #41541 0x08048c81 in ?? ()
>>
>>
>> Any advice?
>> Should I file a bug in the arch bug tracker?
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Pico
>>
>
> Did you rebuild the module using /etc/rc.d/vboxdrv setup?
>

Yeah, that's the first thing I tried.

Pico


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