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On July 9, 2017 5:07:20 PM GMT+02:00, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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>Setup: Running gentoo updated as vbox vm on a |
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> Solaris x86 host |
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>Having a problem installing vbox guest additions. |
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>Hard for me to tell if the problem is with vbox-guestadditions or if |
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>the newest kernel (4.12.0) really has shortcomings. |
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>Like always with guest-additions... I ran: |
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> `bash /media/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run' |
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>It went thru the process... and failed to announce that it failed as |
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>I've seen in the past when something went wrong. |
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>It just tells you to look at "/var/log/vboxadd-install.log' 'to see |
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>what happened". I've included it below. |
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>The log suggests two things to do, to keep this from happening. |
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>"Run make oldconfig && make prepare" |
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>I did that but installing guest-additions ended as below again. |
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>Have I just failed to include something in the kernel build? Or is it |
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>likely to be a problem with guest-additions" |
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>I had these same guest additions installed successfully prior to |
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>building the new kernel. And built the new kernel by inserting the |
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>`.config' from my prior kernel (4.9.10) and running make oldconfig. |
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>And finally checking things with make menuconfig. |
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>It seems likely I failed to include something that was included in |
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>prior kernel build... but not sure what it might be. |
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>Below is the vboxadd-install.log ... I've included the main error |
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>message inline... but attached the full content of the massive pile of |
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>mess output from actual build of guest-additions to try to make this |
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>post a bit easier to read. |
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>------- ------- ---=--- ------- ------- |
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>grep: /lib/modules/4.12.0-gentoo/build/include/linux/version.h: No such |
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>file or directory |
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>make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 CONFIG_MODULE_SIG= -C |
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>/lib/modules/4.12.0-gentoo/build SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.0 |
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>SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 modules |
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>test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || |
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>( \ |
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>echo >&2; \ |
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>echo >&2 " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \ |
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>echo >&2 " include/generated/autoconf.h or |
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>include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\ |
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>echo >&2 " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src |
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>to fix it."; \ |
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>echo >&2 ; \ |
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>/bin/false) |
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>------- ------- ---=--- ------- ------- |
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>Full output of attempted build of vbox guest-additions: |
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Do you have module support enabled? |
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Is the /usr/src/linux symlink pointing to the correct kernel version? |
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In a VBOX VM, you would normally need to compile a kernel, the commands given are only needed when the sources are not used to compile the kernel. |
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Joost |
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