[arch-general] Virtualbox USB issues after upgrade

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 10:49 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 10:07 +0200, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
> > You can try to rmmod ipheth before plug your iphone/ipad to vbox.
> > 
> > And also try to add vbox-ext-oracle (aur) to have better usb support.
> 
> Thank you. I'll report what happened ASAP, perhaps today. - Ralf

Thank you Sébastien :)

I've got more good news, than bad news. The good news are for VBox on
3.3.8-1 x86_64. First I installed vbox-ext-oracle (aur). Is there the
need to edit some settings? I didn't edit anything.
The second step was to boot the the kernel-rt, but now I'll continue
with the third step, back to the regular kernel.
$ sudo rmmod ipheth
Error: Module ipheth is not currently loaded
But that doesn't matter, I could restore the iPad, I just needed to
reconnect the USB to times by the Device > USB Device menu of VBox at
the beginning of the restore.
I didn't check if sync will work too.

There's a another good news. Since month X couldn't start, when I booted
the kernel-rt. Today I upgraded from 3.2.19_rt30-2 to 3.4.2_rt10-1 and
I'm able to start a Xfce session again.

The bad news are for the kernel-rt and VBox.

# /usr/bin/vboxbuild
[snip]
error: `/lib/modules/3.4.2-rt10-1-rt/build' does not appear to be a
valid kernel build directory.
# ln
-s /usr/src/linux-3.4.2-rt10-1-rt /lib/modules/3.4.2-rt10-1-rt/build
# /usr/bin/vboxbuild
:: Removing all old VirtualBox kernel modules
[DONE] 
:: Removing all old VirtualBox kernel modules
[FAIL] 
:: Removing all old VirtualBox kernel modules
[FAIL] 
:: Removing all old VirtualBox kernel modules
[FAIL] 
:: Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules (3.4.2-rt10-1-rt)
[BUSY] Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong

[FAIL] 
Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong

[FAIL] 
Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong

[FAIL] 
Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong

[FAIL] 
gzip: /lib/modules/3.4.2-rt10-1-rt/extramodules/*.ko: No such file or
directory

[DONE]

After a restart

$ sudo pacman -S virtualbox-modules
warning: virtualbox-modules-4.1.16-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
[snip]
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
[snip]

but this didn't change the situation.

Regards,
Ralf