On 28/01/16 13:42, Rob Kampen wrote:
This is the second time I have come across a problem with yum / rpm and kernel packages with CentOS 7. I install CentOS7 and do a yum update I add elrepo epel and virtualbox repos I install Virtualbox-5.0 It fails to install it give a message similar to :
- WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no
module available for the current kernel (3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64) or it failed to load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by
sudo /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.5.0.14r105127
As I had done a yum update the kernel was actually 3.10.0-327.4.5.el7
The initial install did not include kernel-devel so I yum install kernel-devel Still have the problem So I downgrade the kernel - it goes to 3.10.0-327.4.4.el7 I downgrade repeatedly until I get 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 as that was the initial kernel installed. The downgrade correctly downgrades the kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools and kernel-tools-libs BUT NOT the kernel-devel which stays at -327.4.5.el7 Trapped - didn't see that for a while! So I finally yum remove kernel-devel Then I look in yumex (with show latest - disabled) and only the kernel-devel for 3.10.0-327.4.5.el7 is shown. All the other kernel packages show the correct versions. At this point the only installed kernel rpms are 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 So I explicitly ask yum to install sudo yum install kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64
so now I have
rpm -qa |grep kernel
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 kernel-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.1.11-36.el7.centos.x86_64 kernel-headers-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 kernel-tools-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64
The virtual box command to compile and install the vbox driver is sudo /sbin/rcvboxdrv which seems to have issues sudo /sbin/rcvboxdrv
** (pkttyagent:3047): WARNING **: Unable to register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.6 was not provided by any .service files Error registering authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.6 was not provided by any .service files (g-dbus-error-quark, 2)
zero idea of what that means
a repeat of the command returns nothing but when I run
sudo VBoxManage -v
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module available for the current kernel (3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64) or it failed to load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by
sudo /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.5.0.14r105127
BTW the setup param returns Bad argument setup
Turns out the rcvboxdrv script is broken some google foo and i found that I can use |sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup| this ends up putting some meaningful info into the vbox-install.log only to find that gcc wasn't installed - those log files really can help All done - finally!
At this point I have run out of ideas / patience / time and coffee. Any ideas as to how to fix this would be appreciated. TIA Rob
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