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From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 09:20:29
Message-Id: 4b012c23-2254-de20-5f06-40982f9930cf@web.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri) by n952162
1 /var/log/syslog has these vbox-relevant messages:
2
3 Oct 22 12:58:14 txm0-vb1 kernel: [    6.351915] vboxdrv: loading
4 out-of-tree module taints kernel.
5 Oct 22 12:58:14 txm0-vb1 kernel: [    6.352252] vboxdrv: module
6 verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
7 Oct 22 12:58:14 txm0-vb1 kernel: [    6.360935] vboxdrv: Found 1
8 processor cores
9 Oct 22 12:58:14 txm0-vb1 kernel: [    6.386193] vboxdrv: TSC mode is
10 Invariant, tentative frequency 2994379794 Hz
11 Oct 22 12:58:14 txm0-vb1 kernel: [    6.386195] vboxdrv: Successfully
12 loaded version 6.0.24 (interface 0x00290008)
13 Oct 22 12:58:14 txm0-vb1 kernel: [    6.408256] vboxguest: misc device
14 minor 58, IRQ 20, I/O port d020, MMIO at 00000000f0400000 (size 0x400000)
15 Oct 22 12:58:14 txm0-vb1 kernel: [    6.408259] vboxguest: Successfully
16 loaded version 6.0.24_Gentoo (interface 0x00010004)
17 Oct 22 12:58:14 txm0-vb1 kernel: [    6.415139] VBoxNetFlt: Successfully
18 started.
19 Oct 22 12:58:14 txm0-vb1 kernel: [    6.428906] VBoxNetAdp: Successfully
20 started.
21 Oct 22 12:58:14 txm0-vb1 kernel: [    6.698646] fbcon: vboxvideodrmfb
22 (fb0) is primary device
23 Oct 22 12:58:14 txm0-vb1 kernel: [    6.702471] Console: switching to
24 colour frame buffer device 100x37
25 Oct 22 12:58:14 txm0-vb1 kernel: [    6.703824] vboxvideo 0000:00:02.0:
26 fb0: vboxvideodrmfb frame buffer device
27 Oct 22 12:58:14 txm0-vb1 kernel: [    6.704225] [drm] Initialized
28 vboxvideo 1.0.0 20130823 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor
29
30 On 10/22/20 10:47 AM, n952162 wrote:
31 >
32 > Hello all,
33 >
34 > Everybody told me to give up trying to update one of my guest gentoo
35 > systems under virtualbox and *simply* reinstall it.
36 >
37 > I did that and now, when I enter "xinit", x starts and then dies with
38 > the message:
39 >
40 > /MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)/
41 >
42 > /failed to load driver: vboxvideo/
43 >
44 > Note that the vboxvideo module is loaded:
45 >
46 > /$ lsmod | grep vbox/
47 >
48 > */vboxvideo              40960  1/*
49 > /ttm                   122880  1 vboxvideo/
50 > /drm_kms_helper        217088  1 vboxvideo/
51 > /drm                   552960  4 drm_kms_helper,vboxvideo,ttm/
52 > /vboxnetadp             28672  0/
53 > /vboxnetflt             32768  0/
54 > /vboxdrv               475136  2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt/
55 > /vboxguest             335872  0/
56 >
57 > but it turns out there's a vboxvideo_drv.so here:
58 >
59 > //usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so/
60 >
61 > I tried putting a symlink in /usr/lib64/dri to that, but it didn't help.
62 >
63 > Anybody have any experience here?
64 >
65 > TIA
66 >