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On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 01:54 on Tuesday 23 November 2010, Mark Knecht |
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> did opine thusly: |
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>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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> wrote: |
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>> > One of my VirtualBox-3.2.10 modules does not load at boot. |
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>> > |
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>> > /etc/conf.d/modules: |
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>> > modules_2_6="vboxdrv" |
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>> > modules_2_6="vboxnetflt" |
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>> > modules_2_6="vboxnetadp" |
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>> > |
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>> > Everytime, either vboxnetflt or vboxnetadp does not load. It's |
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>> > consistent, one or the other does not load andit's always just one, |
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>> > never neither or two. Today it just happens to be the former: |
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>> > |
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>> > $ lsmod | grep vboxnetflt |
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>> > vboxnetflt 13107 0 |
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>> > vboxdrv 1737920 2 vboxnetflt,vboxnetadp |
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>> > |
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>> > Once booted, modprobe vboxnetflt works as intended. |
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>> > |
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>> > Neither dmesg nor messages has any clue. Both have only this identical |
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>> > info: |
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>> > |
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>> > [ 12.460987] vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog |
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>> > permanently... [ 12.460990] vboxdrv: Successfully done. |
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>> > [ 12.460991] vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores. |
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>> > [ 12.461072] VBoxDrv: dbg - g_abExecMemory=ffffffffa0d91460 |
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>> > [ 12.461090] vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x1b5 offMax=0xa5a |
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>> > [ 12.461131] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is |
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>> > 'normal'. |
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>> > [ 12.461133] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 3.2.10 (interface |
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>> > 0x00140001). |
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>> > |
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>> > |
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>> > kernel is 2.6.36-ck, this has been happening since 2.6.34; and my Google |
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>> > searches were fruitless. |
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>> > |
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>> > Anyone have pointers as to why this might happen? |
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>> > |
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>> > |
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>> > -- |
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>> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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>> |
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>> Alan, |
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>> This is probably to much apples vs oranges to be of any real help: |
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>> |
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>> 1) Running gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r1 here |
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>> 2) Running baselayout1 so everything for me goes in modules.autoload.d |
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>> 3) Prior to this email wasn't loading vboxnetadp |
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>> |
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>> I run a copy of M$ Windows Home Server in VBox to backup user data |
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>> in my VMWare-Player XP/Win7 machines. |
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>> I added vboxnetadp to modules.audioload.d/kernel_2.6 and it seems |
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>> to load fine for me: |
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>> |
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>> c2stable ~ # lsmod | grep vbox |
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>> vboxnetadp 3942 0 |
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>> vboxnetflt 11379 1 |
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>> vboxdrv 1720608 3 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt |
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>> c2stable ~ # |
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>> I don't know what it does or how to test it but I'm not having any |
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>> problems loading it. |
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> Well whaddaya know. Even though our baselayouts are different, this got me |
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> thinking. I changed /etc/conf.d/modules from this: |
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> modules_2_6="vboxdrv" |
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> modules_2_6="vboxnetflt" |
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> modules_2_6="vboxnetadp" |
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> |
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> to this: |
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> modules_2_6="vboxdrv vboxnetflt vboxnetadp" |
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> and now it works: |
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> # lsmod | grep vbox |
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> vboxnetadp 4374 0 |
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> vboxnetflt 13107 0 |
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> vboxdrv 1737920 2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt |
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> |
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> Go figure :-) |
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Good info. I've starred this thread to hopefully help me whenever I |
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get around to trying baselayout-2. |
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Thanks for reporting back. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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