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

[Pico Geyer]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Matthew Gyurgyik <pyther at pyther.net> wrote:
>  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...
>

Hi Matthew,

Yes I did. I've also rebooted just in case. I'm pretty sure it's not
the modules that are causing the problem.

Regards,
Pico