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

[Matthew Gyurgyik]

  On 10/15/2010 10:20 AM, Pico Geyer 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
>>>
>>> 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
Did you reload the modules after rebuilding them?
rmmod vboxdrv; rmmod vboxnetflt; modprobe vboxdrv; modprobe vboxnetflt; 
etc...