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

[Pico Geyer]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Ionuț Bîru <ibiru at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 10/15/2010 07:08 PM, Pico Geyer wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan<lists at itech7.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Pico Geyer<picogeyer at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you rebuild the module using /etc/rc.d/vboxdrv setup?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, that's the first thing I tried.
>>>
>>> Try reinstalling it, because its working here [arch64, dual core 2
>>> ghz]. I'm using VirtualBox OSE.
>>> Also, reinstall the dependencies too.
>>
>> So I did:
>> sudo pacman -S libxml2  libxcursor  libidl2  libxinerama  sdl  libxmu
>> curl  libvncserver  kernel26-headers qt virtualbox-ose
>> warning: libxml2-2.7.7-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
>> warning: libxcursor-1.1.10-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
>> warning: libidl2-0.8.14-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
>> warning: libxinerama-1.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
>> warning: sdl-1.2.14-5 is up to date -- reinstalling
>> warning: libxmu-1.0.5-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
>> warning: curl-7.21.2-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
>> warning: libvncserver-0.9.7-3 is up to date -- reinstalling
>> warning: kernel26-headers-2.6.35.7-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
>> warning: qt-4.7.0-4 is up to date -- reinstalling
>> warning: virtualbox-ose-3.2.10-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
>>
>>> sudo /etc/rc.d/vboxdrv setup
>>> sudo rmmod vboxnetflt vboxdrv
>>> sudo modprobe -v vboxnetflt
>>> VirtualBox
>>
>> Still the same problem.
>>
>> Do you think you could compare your package version to those listed above.
>>
>> Thanks Nilesh
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pico
>
> you didn't said if you are on i686 or x86_64. is kinda important for me.
> also do a cat /proc/cpuinfo.
>
> next you can get rid of virtualbox-ose and install virtualbox_bin and see if
> is crashing there too, mostly to find out if is our problem or their.

Hi Ionut

Sorry about that.
I'm on i686.

cat /proc/cpuinfo:
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 37
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU         650  @ 3.20GHz
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 3197.717
cache size	: 4096 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 0
initial apicid	: 0
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 11
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx rdtscp lm
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf
pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr
pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes lahf_lm ida arat tpr_shadow vnmi
flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips	: 6397.91
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor	: 1
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 37
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU         650  @ 3.20GHz
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 3197.717
cache size	: 4096 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 2
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 4
initial apicid	: 4
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 11
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx rdtscp lm
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf
pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr
pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes lahf_lm ida arat tpr_shadow vnmi
flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips	: 6397.71
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor	: 2
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 37
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU         650  @ 3.20GHz
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 3197.717
cache size	: 4096 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 1
initial apicid	: 1
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 11
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx rdtscp lm
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf
pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr
pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes lahf_lm ida arat tpr_shadow vnmi
flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips	: 6397.70
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor	: 3
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 37
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU         650  @ 3.20GHz
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 3197.717
cache size	: 4096 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 2
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 5
initial apicid	: 5
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 11
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx rdtscp lm
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf
pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr
pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes lahf_lm ida arat tpr_shadow vnmi
flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips	: 6397.71
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

virtualbox_bin (3.2.10-1) from the Aur package works correctly.

Regards,
Pico